Translating Neruda

Translating Neruda

Author: John Felstiner

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780804713276

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What goes into the translating of a poem? Usually that process gets forgotten once the new poem stands intact in translation. Yet a verse translation derives from historical, biographical, and philosophical research, interpretive analysis of the original poem, and continuous linguistic and prosodic choices that parallel those the poet made. Taking as a text Pablo Neruda's brilliant prophetic sequence Alturas de Macchu Picchu (1945), the author here re-creates the entire process of translation, from his first encounter with the poem to the last shaping of a phrase that may never come right in English. This many-faceted book forms an essay on the theory and practice of literary translation, a study of Neruda's career through 1945, and an interpretation of his major poem, all of which lead to a striking new poem in English, Heights of Macchu Picchu, printed along with the original Spanish. This genesis of a verse translation also includes little-known biographical data, hitherto untranslated poems and prose from the years 1920 to 1945, and new translations of key poems from Neruda's Residence on Earth and Spain in My Heart.


The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound

The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound

Author: Ira B. Nadel

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1999-02-11

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9780521649209

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An international team of scholars provides an invaluable introduction to Pound's work and life.


Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories

Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories

Author: Herman Melville

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Published: 2016-04-26

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0143107607

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A new, definitive edition of Herman Melville’s virtuosic short stories—American classics wrought with scorching fury, grim humor, and profound beauty Though best-known for his epic masterpiece Moby-Dick, Herman Melville also left a body of short stories arguably unmatched in American fiction. In the sorrowful tragedy of Billy Budd, Sailor; the controlled rage of Benito Cereno; and the tantalizing enigma of Bartleby, the Scrivener; Melville reveals himself as a singular storyteller of tremendous range and compelling power. In these stories, Melville cuts to the heart of race, class, capitalism, and globalism in America, deftly navigating political and social issues that resonate as clearly in our time as they did in Melville’s. Also including The Piazza Tales in full, this collection demonstrates why Melville stands not only among the greatest writers of the nineteenth century, but also as one of our greatest contemporaries. This Penguin Classics edition features the Reading Text of Billy Budd, Sailor, as edited from a genetic study of the manuscript by Harrison Hayford and Merton M. Sealts, Jr., and the authoritative Northwestern-Newberry text of The Piazza Tales. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.


Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy

Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy

Author: George Corbett

Publisher: Open Book Publishers

Published: 2016-12-12

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1783742569

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This collection – to be issued in three volumes – offers an unprecedented repertoire of vertical readings for the whole poem. As the first volume exemplifies, vertical reading not only articulates unexamined connections between the three canticles but also unlocks engaging new ways to enter into core concerns of the poem. The three volumes thereby provide an indispensable resource for scholars, students and enthusiasts of Dante. The volume has its origin in a series of thirty-three public lectures held in Trinity College, the University of Cambridge (2012-2016) which can be accessed at the Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy website.


The Ashley Library

The Ashley Library

Author: Thomas James Wise

Publisher:

Published: 1922

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13:

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Catalog of the author's library of 1st editions of the famous English poets and dramatists from Elizabethan times until the present.