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...Sophie Chantal Hart Professor of English Emeritus at Wellesley College, Ferry is an esteemed scholar and poet. Critics have often noted his ability to bring the poetry he is translating—whether an ode of Horace, an eclogue of Virgil or a passage from Gilgamesh—into remarkably fresh and immediate English idiom...
...first is its purely linguistic pleasures—poetry is distillation of language creation, and all of its linguistic uniqueness is lost when it is translated. To whatever extent a poetic translation is linguistically pleasing, it is entirely due to the work of the translator, not the original poet. At the same time, poetry is a distillation of consciousness; most poems also have some sort of message or meaning they are trying to convey. It is much more the translator’s duty to preserve the integrity of this message than to re-imagine it, and many...
...there are many who will tout Love and Theft as a return to form, and so it is, but this cocky grandfather-figure who sings, “I’ll die before I get senile,” is also yet another facet of the ever-moving poet (whose Never Ending Tour has now lasted about 13 years). Dylan is no stranger to reinvention, the most famous instance being his first public embracing of rock and roll, when the audiences became so hostile at times that concerts would degenerate into a war of wills between Dylan...
After three weeks in a coma following a prolonged illness in 1996, a press release from the John Hunter Hospital announced that premiere Australian poet Les Murray was once again “conscious and verbal...
...Australia, his fame extends far beyond the borders of his beloved nation. His collection Subhuman Redneck Poems received the T.S. Eliot Prize and he has been awarded the Gold Medal for Poetry, presented by Queen Elizabeth. His newest collection shows his scope, depth and maturity as a world-class poet...