Much that is felt to be absent in Pope’s great poems—The Rape of the Lock, The Moral Epistles—is a source … More
Tag: Translation
201. (Sarah Kirsch)
The 2014 Ice Roses: Selected Poems of the German poet Sarah Kirsch, published a year after her death (Kirsch was … More
185. (David Ferry)
The post on the Aeneid has been temporarily removed, as I prepare a review essay on Ferry’s translation for Essays … More
170. (Eugenio Montale)
A second in a series of readings of poems by Eugenio Montale, from his collection La Bufera e altro. Here, from the … More
143. (Marina Tsvetaeva)
And, in part, 143. (Elaine Feinstein), since it is Feinstein’s translations (written with the assistance of Angela Livingstone) from the … More
104. (Geoffrey Hill)
In the late collections where Eugenio Montale is most present, in translation and as an interlocutor, Hill’s voice finds most … More
81. (Joachim du Bellay)
Not a name that gets much English or American attention these (or other) days, Joachim du Bellay made his way … More
17. (Charles Baudelaire)
Robert Lowell’s 1961 Imitations did more for the reputation of twentieth-century poets Mandelstam and Montale than it did for the … More
