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London even shed its sodden skies, and the burnished brass and gold leaf of the cavalry and coaches sparkled in the autumn sunshine. About the only sour note was sounded over the commemorative poem written by Sir John Betjeman; it was his first official literary effort since being named Britain's poet laureat. One Labor M.P. described the lyric as "turgid, unromantic and stamped with mediocrity," and called for Betjeman's resignation. The verse...
While maintaining the narrative and dramatic pitch of the poem, Fitzgerald's verse is open to the full beauty of metaphor and resonance of cadence in Homer's poem. At the same time, he preserves the freshness and vitality of the original, and this is perhaps the genius of Fitzgerald's translation...
Fitzgerald's reading was perfectly suited to his poetry. His tone was sufficiently subdued to allow the poetry itself to take the primary place in the listener's attention, but the nobility and passion of the poem were not lost in his expression. The reading was consistently fine, and often very moving...
...translated poetry, and the definitive translation, in collaboration with Didley Fitts, of several Greek tragedies, including Sophocles' Oedipal trilogy and Euripides' Alcestis. As William Arrowsmith pointed out in his review of Fitzgerald's Odyssey in The Nation, Fitzgerald avoids a mere word-by-word rendering of the original poem. Rather, he totally recasts the Greek into English,...rethinking and reshaping the Greek by turning the thrust and power beneath the words rather than the words themselves...
Rodino has had a lifelong fondness for fiction and poetry (his favorite poem: Milton's On His Blindness). As a young man he wrote a poem with a final quatrain that places wry perspective on the work now before him: "For those of you who will with scales in mind,/ The sins of erring man be called to weigh,/ Remember crossroads run a double way-/ And some go wrong who blessed with sight are blind...