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A Good day

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

For America and the world.
Wish I could be here.

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Of Poets and Poetry

Friday, November 17, 2006

Some months ago, I wrote about the friendship between Bhoja and Kalidasa. Here is another similar episode from medieval South India involving Krishnadevaraya and Allasani Peddana. A catu verse couched as a lament by Peddana offers a vision of the esteem that Krishnadevaraya had towards his favorite poet:
When he would see me on the street, [...]

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Robert Fagles

Thursday, November 2, 2006

After his two superb (and best selling) translations of Iliad (1990) and The Odyssey (1996), Robert Fagles has just published a new translation of Virgil’s Aeneid. Paul Friedrich introduced many generations of his students (including me) at the University of Chicago to Fagles’ wonderful translations, which as Fagles himself says aren’t literal or literary. Still, [...]

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California notes

Sunday, June 18, 2006

1. Zza’s trattoria on Grand Avenue. Sitting by the window, I could look into Lake Merritt and eat my lunch.
Ordering lunch was a liminal moment. No olive oil with the garlic bread. When the waitress brings me an omlette, she brings no butter with the toast. Only jam. Which I suspect is made of organically [...]

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