Selected Verse Translations: With an Essay on the Translation of PoetryPresents a selection from the various translations of European poetry that includes substantial sections from the French and German as well as from the 'Illiad' and "The Divine Comedy." |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Achaeans Argives assonances battle battlements beast Beatrice beautiful beneath break CANTO Danaan dark dead dear Diotima donkeys drafts earth English equivalent poem eyes fall flowers Francis Jammes free imitation friends Garonne gate gaze German poetry Glaucus glittering glory green grifon hand hear my heartbeat heard heart heartbeat go heaven Hector Hippolochus holy idiom inversion lady language laurels left his cloak light Literary Supplement lover Lycians lyric poetry Menestheus MICHAEL HAMBURGER mother calls Naiades never night original poet poet's reproduce rest rhyme round RUTH PRYOR Sarpedon scholar scholarship SELECTED VERSE TRANSLATIONS shield ships sighs silence sleep son of Oileus song soon soul spear spring Statius Stefan George stone struck Summer's orderlies sweet Tandaradei tears Telamonian Ajax Teucros things Think thou TRANSLATION OF POETRY translator's tree Trojans turned Vernon Watkins wall weeping wind winter a blaze WISE DONKEY words Zeus