Meanwhile, while I realize this isn't the message the publisher intends, what I learned from the current MS magazine is that Jeanine Garofalo is growing into even more of a cutie as she gets older.
Lovely, talented, and resembling Garofalo to boot.
I'm currently fond of the recent If Not, Winter by Anne Carson, who's both a classicist and a poet; a paperback is due out next month. No other complete collection I've looked at has come close in the poetry. The few poems included in Richmond Lattimore's Greek Lyrics are as good as Carson's, managing to capture the meter at the same time. M.L. West's translations in Greek Lyric Poetry are nicely literal, but rarely sing — a classicist, but not a poet. I can't say I've liked any others — those of Willis Barnstone or Mary Barnard come to mind.
William Harris (my fave 'net classicist) has, btw, a couple interesting essays on Sappho on this page, including an in-depth analysis/translation of #1, the only complete poem we have. It gave me new appreciation for the difficulties of translation, and I've done some of it myself. (Not of Greek — Spanish and Latin only.)
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Date: 8 July 2003 01:37 pm (UTC)I'm currently fond of the recent If Not, Winter by Anne Carson, who's both a classicist and a poet; a paperback is due out next month. No other complete collection I've looked at has come close in the poetry. The few poems included in Richmond Lattimore's Greek Lyrics are as good as Carson's, managing to capture the meter at the same time. M.L. West's translations in Greek Lyric Poetry are nicely literal, but rarely sing — a classicist, but not a poet. I can't say I've liked any others — those of Willis Barnstone or Mary Barnard come to mind.
William Harris (my fave 'net classicist) has, btw, a couple interesting essays on Sappho on this page, including an in-depth analysis/translation of #1, the only complete poem we have. It gave me new appreciation for the difficulties of translation, and I've done some of it myself. (Not of Greek — Spanish and Latin only.)
---L.