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On Translation: "Roman Elegy V" by J.W. von Goethe
Topics discussed in this episode:
-My conversation with David and Matthew on Age of Muses
-My new post at Literary Matters
-My French translation episode on Heredia
-My Spanish translation episode on Lope
-Metaphrase and paraphrase
-Germany's view of Goethe
-Magister Christopher Childers
-From Sturm und Drang to Spit on that Thang (sorry)
-Weimar (semi)Classicism
-How to write a sex poem
-Accentual-syllabic vs. Quantitative meter
-The Education of Elijah Blumov by one Christopher Childers
-The lowdown on elegiac couplets, feat. Coleridge
-Goethe's technique, my technique
-The classical, semi-salvific quality of good sex
-My own embroiderings of the text
-Various triumvirates
-To All the Poets Who Loved Before
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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 (/ /)