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On Translating Vergil

Taken together, the first five lines of Vergil’s Eclogues are the most beautiful lines of poetry in the Latin language. It seems people don’t make claims like that very often anymore and, sometimes, I...

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Jorge Guillén: An Original Translation

Jorge Guillén was a member of the Generation of ’27, a group of avant-garde Spanish poets who continued meeting until the Spanish Civil War. “Unos amigos” references the group’s initial encounter in...

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Persian Sonnets: A Translation of Rumi

Mowlānā Jalāl al-Din Muhammad Rumi, also known simply as Rumi, was the preeminent Sufi mystic and poet. Born in 13th-century Persia, he composed a wide variety of poems about the themes of sacred...

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