The Oxford Book of Classical Verse in Translation

ISBN-13: 9780192142092 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 656 str.

Adrian Poole; Jeremy Maule;Poole

Opis

Great Britain has a long and grand tradition of poets translating classical authors. Virtually every great poet from Chaucer on has tried his or her hand at translation, with the results often rivaling or even excelling the ancient original. This unique anthology presents the best of these translations, ranging from King Alfred, Alexander Pope, and Ben Jonson, to Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ezra Pound, and Ted Hughes. The book offers a vast array of responses to the song, verse, and drama of ancient Greece and Rome, and to poets themselves as varied as Homer, Sappho, Euripides, Virgil, Ovid, and Juvenal Organized by classical author and text, the book gathers and juxtaposes English versions, sometimes of the same passage or poem, to dramatize the endless renewal of one great poetic tradition in and through another.

Recenzje

This valuable anthology presents classical Greek and Latin verse from Homer to Boethius in a extraordinary variety of translations...One could write much of the history of English poetry with this volume as a starting point, and it is easy to envisage it providing material for imaginative seminars...The scope of this anthology is admirable, and is the result of wide but unobtrusive research...It would make an ideal present for the student of English or of Classics, but at the same time no experienced scholar in either subject will fail to be surprised, educated and stimulated by it.

O autorze

Adrian Poole is University Lecturer in English at Trinity College, Cambridge. Jeremy Maule is Newton Trust Assistant Lecturer in English, and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.