tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post901639581785514379..comments2024-03-28T14:22:37.153-07:00Comments on mole: A History of English Poetry, Chapter One: The Hexameter SputnikDalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14523194846272870013noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-66018836546204817302011-06-11T12:48:25.353-07:002011-06-11T12:48:25.353-07:00Virgil and Ovid are wonderful. They don't tran...Virgil and Ovid are wonderful. They don't translate all that well into English, though, not nearly so well as Homer. They do a lot of elaborate patterning that doesn't carry into accentual verse very well.Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14523194846272870013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-59394051317317422422011-06-11T12:01:50.365-07:002011-06-11T12:01:50.365-07:00Being knew to poetry (with the exception of standa...Being knew to poetry (with the exception of standard high school poems) it would probably be best that I didn't comment... yet I'm so very drawn to poetry. And I love Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Perhaps I ought to read Virgil and Ovid?<br />(Will be attending a writer's conference at the end of this month, and I'm looking forward to the four poetry craft sessions for which I signed up. Maybe then I'll be able to say something intelligible.) ;)Jaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06694559900539722616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-18268715737785769082011-06-10T23:57:24.591-07:002011-06-10T23:57:24.591-07:00Like Lucy, I was crap at Latin in school. I got 5%...Like Lucy, I was crap at Latin in school. I got 5% in my GCE (16+) exam, this for writing my name and then falling asleep, head down on the desk. So the classics passed me by for many years. This excursion is a welcome addition to the patchy catching-up I've been doing ever since. Chapter One in a long series, I hope.Dickhttp://patteran.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-78903922444944730552011-06-10T07:22:50.552-07:002011-06-10T07:22:50.552-07:00I wanted to do Latin to A level because I liked Vi...I wanted to do Latin to A level because I liked Virgil so much. Sadly I was crap at it. Still love the Georgics. Or maybe I love Helen Waddell and she loved the Georgics.<br /><br />I hope you're going to do lots more of these...Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-83694480511087593032011-06-07T20:00:24.527-07:002011-06-07T20:00:24.527-07:00God, that blowhard Cicero. I learned on him too,De...God, that blowhard Cicero. I learned on him too,<em>De Senectute</em>, and decided Latin literature must be awful. It was ten years later that I finally started reading Virgil and Ovid (out of duty, for my dissertation) and discovered, my God! Fabulous poetry, amazing stuff.Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14523194846272870013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-57325371928039737162011-06-07T19:02:00.152-07:002011-06-07T19:02:00.152-07:00Mr. Poetry Goes to Hell
*sporfle*
I was set to le...<i>Mr. Poetry Goes to Hell</i><br />*sporfle*<br /><br />I was set to learn Vergil's poetry in school too. Mercifully, we got to it after we'd spent months floundering through Cicero's Catilinarian Orations, so the Aeneid was actually kind of relaxing by comparison.Amandahttp://householdopera.typepad.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-29883586960164448002011-06-07T10:27:07.524-07:002011-06-07T10:27:07.524-07:00Heh. I just cast on my Hwaet! socks. Grabbing the ...Heh. I just cast on my Hwaet! socks. Grabbing the popcorn.Picahttp://www.magpienest.org/feathersofhope/noreply@blogger.com