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On Translation: 5 Ways of Looking at Lope

Elijah Perseus Blumov Season 8 Episode 5

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Topics discussed:


-Alice tackles Milton on Poetry Says

-Check out my Substack here! 

-My episode on Ryan Wilson

-My episode on Geoffrey Hill

-The long and short of a long fellow

-Longfellow's Dante

-The Monster of Literature

-Romance languages and hendecasyllabics

-Faithful to which fidelity?

-Translational hijinks ensue

-Mosaic rhymes!

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Sharp thoughts and cutting truths (Matthew): Sleerickets
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The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight

Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry Association
Art by David Anthony Klug

List of the most common metrical feet:
Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)
Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)
Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)
Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)
Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)
Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)
Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)
Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)