Comments on: Oh, to be a Medici! http://quarterlyconversation.com/constant/oh-to-be-a-medici The weblog of The Quarterly Conversation Fri, 04 Mar 2011 18:41:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Soo Jin Oh http://quarterlyconversation.com/constant/oh-to-be-a-medici/comment-page-1#comment-80 Soo Jin Oh Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:18:52 +0000 http://quarterlyconversation.com/constant/?p=386#comment-80 Thanks a bunch for the Stanley Mitchell recommendation, Jeff. I will check that out. Thanks a bunch for the Stanley Mitchell recommendation, Jeff. I will check that out.

]]> By: Jeff Waxman http://quarterlyconversation.com/constant/oh-to-be-a-medici/comment-page-1#comment-74 Jeff Waxman Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:15:02 +0000 http://quarterlyconversation.com/constant/?p=386#comment-74 The word on the street is that reads Stanley Mitchell's translation reads as like the original, and with the same wit and grace. The word on the street is that reads Stanley Mitchell’s translation reads as like the original, and with the same wit and grace.

]]> By: Levi Stahl Urges Ernest Hilbert to Write a Noir Novel-in-Verse over at Quarterly Conversation | E-Verse Radio http://quarterlyconversation.com/constant/oh-to-be-a-medici/comment-page-1#comment-50 Levi Stahl Urges Ernest Hilbert to Write a Noir Novel-in-Verse over at Quarterly Conversation | E-Verse Radio Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:37:04 +0000 http://quarterlyconversation.com/constant/?p=386#comment-50 [...] on here. Read the two poems he references [...] [...] on here. Read the two poems he references [...]

]]> By: Scott Esposito http://quarterlyconversation.com/constant/oh-to-be-a-medici/comment-page-1#comment-49 Scott Esposito Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:49:20 +0000 http://quarterlyconversation.com/constant/?p=386#comment-49 The only thing I know about Eugene Onegin translations is don't start with Nabokov's. The only thing I know about Eugene Onegin translations is don’t start with Nabokov’s.

]]> By: Soo Jin Oh http://quarterlyconversation.com/constant/oh-to-be-a-medici/comment-page-1#comment-47 Soo Jin Oh Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:05:16 +0000 http://quarterlyconversation.com/constant/?p=386#comment-47 Levi, if you should win the lottery or suddenly inherit a fortune, please get in contact with me and I will send you samples of my versification. Zombies, werewolves, alien abduction, AI takeover, vampires: you name it, and I will versify on it. I don't promise to rival Hilbert, but I will give it my best shot. By the way, I've often read that no translation of Eugene Onegin does it justice. Can any of you recommend an enjoyable English translation of it? It's something I've been meaning to read for a long time as I am a devotee of the opera. Levi, if you should win the lottery or suddenly inherit a fortune, please get in contact with me and I will send you samples of my versification. Zombies, werewolves, alien abduction, AI takeover, vampires: you name it, and I will versify on it. I don’t promise to rival Hilbert, but I will give it my best shot.

By the way, I’ve often read that no translation of Eugene Onegin does it justice. Can any of you recommend an enjoyable English translation of it? It’s something I’ve been meaning to read for a long time as I am a devotee of the opera.

]]> By: Jeff Waxman http://quarterlyconversation.com/constant/oh-to-be-a-medici/comment-page-1#comment-44 Jeff Waxman Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:00:04 +0000 http://quarterlyconversation.com/constant/?p=386#comment-44 And it puts one in mind of Eliot's famous note on writing verse (of some kind): "Yeats had nobody, we had Yeats." And it puts one in mind of Eliot’s famous note on writing verse (of some kind): “Yeats had nobody, we had Yeats.”

]]> By: Scott Esposito http://quarterlyconversation.com/constant/oh-to-be-a-medici/comment-page-1#comment-43 Scott Esposito Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:59:21 +0000 http://quarterlyconversation.com/constant/?p=386#comment-43 It's not quite a verse novel, but I did just read "New Year's Letter" by Auden, which I think qualifies as a "poem longer than 'The Waste Land.'" I liked it a lot (am planning "The Age of Anxiety" next), and it put to me the thought that some poetry and philosophy seem to meet a some rarefied terrain in the clouds (e.g. is Wittenstein's Tractatus really that different from a philosophical poem?). It’s not quite a verse novel, but I did just read “New Year’s Letter” by Auden, which I think qualifies as a “poem longer than ‘The Waste Land.’” I liked it a lot (am planning “The Age of Anxiety” next), and it put to me the thought that some poetry and philosophy seem to meet a some rarefied terrain in the clouds (e.g. is Wittenstein’s Tractatus really that different from a philosophical poem?).

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