Versecraft
Versecraft
On Translation: Heredia et Moi
Topics discussed in this episode include:
-Order George David Clark's new book, Newly Not Eternal here!
-Order John Wall Barger's new book, The Elephant of Silence here!
-On the necessity of verse translation, feat. Bob and Paul
-Metaphrase and Paraphrase
-The Blumov Method of translation
-Jacques Barzun's An Essay On French Verse
-Romanticism in Realism's clothing
-The tyranny of Hugo
-Parnassianism and other ideologies of contraction
-Buy John Anson's lovely translation of Les Trophees here!
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The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight
Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry Association
Art by David Anthony Klug
List of the most common metrical feet:
Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)
Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)
Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)
Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)
Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)
Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)
Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)
Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)