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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse, trans. Christopher Childers
– The Eight Stages of Translation by Robert Bly
– Robert Frost’s letter to John Bartlett regarding sentence sound (couldn’t find a great copy online)
– Sonnets to Orpheus No. 21 by Rainer Maria Rilke (see also Chris’s translation below)
– Orchard Trees, January by Richard Wilbur
– Heraclitus trans. William Johnson Cory
– Diffugere Nives/Horace iv.7, trans. A. E. Housman
– J. Kates
– The Mysteries of Caesar by Anthony Hecht
– An addendum from Chris:
I emailed XJ Kennedy and asked him if this epigram is about Bly's essay & this specific Rilke poem. He denied it, but come on, it fit…
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