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...Woodrow Wilson fellowships, and in percentage of graduates who have gone on to become college and university teachers, notably in science. Just for variety, Reed also lists such odd alumni as a talented writer who became a convicted stickup artist, a union organizer who went on to translate the Iliad, and the Zen-loving model for one of Novelist Jack Kerouac's chief characters...
Dryden did it for Virgil, Pope for Homer. A few living poets have recently produced such elegant efforts as Richmond Lattimore's Iliad and Robert Fitzgerald's Odyssey. But to four lively classicists at the University of Texas, who have just launched a pert quarterly called Arion, the field cries out for even zestier treatment. Arion has set out to banish the philological quibbling and fusty Victorian translations that have stupefied students for generations. Applying the verbal and visual techniques of Eliot, Pound, Joyce, Henry James and the movies, it aims to reawaken pleasure...
...last week was Arion's even better second issue, with English Poet Christopher Logue's new version of The Iliad's Book XVI, which culminates in a bloody battle between Greeks and Trojans. Among Logue's curdling visual effects...
...They view translation as reseeing and refeeling of structure and meaning. Carne-Ross argues: "The translator's job is to get inside the text, to work his way through the words and relive the informing experience which lies behind them." Poet Logue has done just that for The Iliad, says Carne-Ross, and so proved that "it wasn't dead at all, it had merely been embalmed. Thanks to Logue's irresponsible behavior. Homer is on the move once more. The genie is out of the bottle...
Produced for a doctoral thesis at Columbia University, the result is a huge black notebook composed of pages and pages of numbers-a coded guide to all 157 varieties of syllabic patterns in the Iliad's 112,000 words and 15,693 lines. McDonough can now say, for example, that the poem's most common syllabic pattern is a word of one short followed by two long syllables appearing at the end of a line, in 6,344 lines or 40.42% of the total lines. Sample: 'Απολλων'(Apollo...