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Sextus Propertius From Homage to Sextus Propertius tr. Ezra Pound pre:Yet you ask on what account I write so many love-lyrics And whence this soft book comes into my mouth. Neither Calliope nor Apollo sung these things into my ear, My genius is no more than a girl. If she with ivory fingers drive a tune through the lyre, We look at the process. How easy the moving fingers; if hair is mussed on her forehead, If she goes in a gleam of Cos, in a slither of dyed stuff, There is a volume in the matter; if her eyelids sink into sleep, There are new jobs for the author; And if she plays with me with her shirt off, We shall construct many Iliads. And whatever she does or says We shall spin long yarns out of nothing. Thus much the fates have allotted me, and if, Maecenas, I were able to lead heroes into armour, I would not, Neither would I warble of Titans, nor of Ossa spiked onto Olympus,...
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# ¿ Apr 14, 2018 18:19 |
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# ¿ May 16, 2024 12:53 |
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My dad read me this poem when I was a kid and I always enjoyed it. I'm interested in thoughts/criticisms about it. It's opening verse is firmly etched in my memory, probably thanks the the sing-song rhythm, which was (apparently) inspired by Rudyard Kipling. Any other poems I'd like?
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2018 20:55 |
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# ¿ Apr 26, 2018 18:01 |
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I've been reading Ooga-Booga by Frederick Seidel and it's weird and interesting.
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# ¿ Jul 2, 2018 03:04 |
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Truly the most abhorrent reviews on Goodreads are those of poetry collections where the review is a poem.quote:I would've liked to've liked this book more There's five or more stanzas to this thing. Franchescanado fucked around with this message at 22:21 on Jul 5, 2018 |
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# ¿ May 16, 2024 12:53 |
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I've been slowly going through Ovid's Metamorphosis and it's wonderful. Probably my favorite pre-1960's poetic work I've read.
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# ¿ Sep 8, 2018 00:15 |