I can’t believe I didn’t know — until you brought it up (thank god for you) — that Ted Hughes didn’t translate from the Latin. If I had known that, I don’t know if I would have chosen the book! Though I guess that’s why it’s simpler and more fluid. He just read the other translations and … wrote whatever he wanted?
that sounds about right. If you give me a couple of minutes tomorrow I will tell about the last research project I did as a professor - it was poetry translation with more or less monolingual kids. I'm so bummed that I won't make it tonight to Sylvia and Courtland's fiesta. But I cannot keep awake much past 6 or 6:30. Seems rude to go over for dinner than fall asleep. But I WILL tell all about the poetry translation thing - https://www.catranslation.org/education/
Ted Hughes Tales from Ovid. Out loud.
I can’t believe I didn’t know — until you brought it up (thank god for you) — that Ted Hughes didn’t translate from the Latin. If I had known that, I don’t know if I would have chosen the book! Though I guess that’s why it’s simpler and more fluid. He just read the other translations and … wrote whatever he wanted?
that sounds about right. If you give me a couple of minutes tomorrow I will tell about the last research project I did as a professor - it was poetry translation with more or less monolingual kids. I'm so bummed that I won't make it tonight to Sylvia and Courtland's fiesta. But I cannot keep awake much past 6 or 6:30. Seems rude to go over for dinner than fall asleep. But I WILL tell all about the poetry translation thing - https://www.catranslation.org/education/
Also, https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ859685.pdf
NYT Book Review from last weekend (it was the holiday books edition, my 2nd favorite of the year). And catch up on Jane Eyre.....
Berg by Ann Quin
Work emails 😭
hahaha, that's reading too! And it will be so much more pleasant with Paul's accompaniment.