Word: poetes
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...gave me great pleasure to translate Beowulf [with] Ulster linguistic finger prints on it," the Irish poet added...
Citing the critical link between culture and linguistic voice in poetic translations, Emerson Visiting Poet and 1995 Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney delivered a lecture entitled "Fretwork: On Translating Beowulf" last night to a full house in the Science Center...
Heaney returned throughout his talk to the idea that a poet's linguistic voice is inextricably linked to his or her cultural background...
Indeed, it was as much for his words of literary and poetic wisdom as to hear selections from his Beowulf that drew such a large audience to Heaney's lecture, the first in a series of six by the poet which will span the month of October...
Kane, an Eskimo from Anchorage, Ak., read a poem by the noted Native American poet Sherman Alexie, titled "Imagining the Reservation...