One vote per person ! And lets final get this poesy book club going!
One vote per person ! And lets final get this poesy book club going!
Apparently Ovid sweeps the field; it's enough to make me reconsider predestination.
"I feel I am free but I know I am not" Emil Cioran
Yep looks like it's Ovid-
What translation should we use?
Whomever nominated Ovid, can you recommend a translation?
I nominated, I am using the Oxford translation I'll dig up my copy tomorrow as it is buried. To be honest, I nominated it because it is one of the few books I have here in China - a Public Domain translation would be as equally acceptable.
I have the Oxford as well, I'll use that one.
I have Mandelbaum and a complete Humphries on the way.
Beware of the man with just one book. -Ovid
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.- Mark Twain
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So what happens next?
I see the following versions on the internet:
Garth, Dryden, et al: http://classics.mit.edu/Ovid/metam.html
Kline: http://etext.virginia.edu/latin/ovid/trans/Ovhome.htm
Not to jump ahead too much, but since you all compiled that list of poets, what do you think about working your way down the list of them after reading Ovid's Metamorphoses?
Just an idea, anyway.
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its' own reason for existing." ~ Albert Einstein
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I may pop in for some of the Metamorphoses discussion. I'll look for the starting post. The translations I have are the Mandelbaum, the Golding, and whoever did the Loeb facing page translations.
"In rime sparse il suono/ di quei sospiri ond' io nudriva 'l core/ in sul mio primo giovenile errore"~ Francesco Petrarca
"Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can."~ Jane Austen
I'd be for that.Originally Posted by qimissung
So, when will you all be reading Metamorphoses? I would like to participate, but I'm in a Moby Dick and Uncle Tom's Cabin class until the 23rd, and probably won't be able to participate until then.
I also have the Humphries translation.
would everyone be fine is we began our poesy book club on monday?
On Monday? It should be fine. I only have to finish Swann's Way (re-reading) and the first volume of The Letters of Samuel Beckett (1929-1940) before Monday then!
I rely heavely on Audiobooks so will be using Barry Kraft's reading of Frank Justin Muller translation (this one):
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Metamorphose...7033443&sr=8-2
"The farther he goes the more good it does me. I don’t want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out, truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement. He is the most courageous, remorseless writer going and the more he grinds my nose in the sh1t the more I am grateful to him..."
-- Harold Pinter on Samuel Beckett
So I'm planning a trip to the bookstore this weekend; which is a good translation to get (providing they have a selection)?
And Monday would be a good day to start for me. Gracias ,Alexander III for all the work you've done on this. What did you think of working our way down that magnificent list?
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its' own reason for existing." ~ Albert Einstein
"Remember, no matter where you go, there you are." Buckaroo Bonzai "Some people say I done alright for a girl." Melanie Safka
OK... it's Monday... I have my Humphries translation of Ovid in hand... where's the party?
Beware of the man with just one book. -Ovid
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.- Mark Twain
My Blog: Of Delicious Recoil
http://stlukesguild.tumblr.com/
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