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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 21/08/2026
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The burning of Troy - Gillis Mostaert (Flemish, ca. 1534 - 1598)
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 04/08/2026
“War is the greatest of the evils with which the gods afflict men” Nolan's #Odyssey left you wanting more? We are delighted to announce N. Hewitt's #OpenAccess translation of François Fénelon’s ‘sequel’ - The Adventures of Telemachus: www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French...
Telemachus battles the lion - Bartolomeo Pinelli (Italian, 1781-1835)
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 03/08/2026
"You and I in the darkness View The cratered Surface Of the moon In lovely silence." No Mind - A new #OpenAccess collection of original poetry by A. S. Kline echoing the traditions of Han-shan's Cold Mountain and the hills of T'ao Ch'ien: www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/ASKpoe...
Moonset soon after sunset’ - Steve Gribble - Unsplash
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 28/06/2026
"We are indeed immortal and here are preserved the images of the world we inhabited" Read A.S. Kline's #OpenAccess translation of Gérard de Nerval's last novella, Aurelia, or Life and the Dream, modelled on Dante’s ‘La Vita Nuova’: www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French...
Dream Woman - Alice Pike Barney (American, 1857–1931)
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 24/06/2026
"When a whole world died there, it seems shameful to spend tears on each of the innumerable dead" Lucan, 'Pharsalia' Book VII:597-646 Read A. S. Kline's #OpenAccess English translation: www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/...
Lucan - The Civil War: Pharsalia - translated by A. S. Kline - cover
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Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
A brief appreciation thread for some of my colleagues in Classics at Exeter, who the University of Exeter have put at risk of redundancy @exeter.ac.uk. A few are on here, most are not, but I'm going to say nice things about them anyway.
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 24/06/2026
On July 18, 1843, Hugo began a two-month journey across the Pyrenees. He was forced to abort his travels after his daughter Léopoldine tragically drowned. His travelogue remained unpublished until 1880. Read A. S. Kline's #OpenAccess English translation: www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French...
‘The church of Luz’- Victor Hugo (1894) - Paris Musées
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 01/04/2026
Victor-Marie Hugo made three trips to the Rhineland with Juliette Drouet from 1838-1840. The recollections of these excursions formed the basis of a collection of letters, published as ‘Le Rhin’ in 1842. Read A. S. Kline's new English translation here: www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French...
‘Maus Castle and the Loreley’ - Johannes Jakob Diezler (1789–1855)
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 01/04/2026
Heinrich Heine, when a student in Göttingen in 1824, hiked through the Harz Mountains. ‘Die Harzreise’ his description of the journey, is a mixture of lyricism and satire. It was Heine’s first major success. Read A. S. Kline's new English translation here: www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/German...
‘The Ilse Waterfall on the Brocken in the Harz Mountains (1830)’ Hermann Josef Neefe (German, 1790-1854)
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 08/02/2026
Heinrich Heine's 'Germany: A Winter's Tale' is his satirical verse ‘epic’ describing a journey from Paris to Hamburg in the winter of 1843. The title ‘A Winter’s Tale’ refers to Shakespeare’s late play. Read A. S. Kline's new English translation here: www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/German...
‘Winter Twilight in the Rhine Valley’ Ernesto Strigelly (German, 19th century)
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 08/02/2026
We announce a 25th anniversary issue of A. S. Kline's prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy featuring all illustrations by Gustave Doré (France, 1832-1883), digitally restored from the Cassell & Company Limited edition (London, 1902). Read here: www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Italia...
Cover of 25th anniversary edition Dante's Divine Comedy
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 08/01/2026
Gautier's preface to Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal in which he refutes allegations of immorality and argues that Baudelaire employed what he terms the "decadent style" not as endorsement but as his method. In a new #OpenAccess translation by A. S. Kline: www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French...
‘Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1844)’ - Émile Isidore Deroy (French, 1820 - 1846)
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 08/01/2026
Selected poems from throughout Victor Hugo’s career with a central theme of mourning - ranging from his daughter Léopoldine’s drowning to his poetic tribute offered at Théophile Gautier's Grave. Now in a new #OpenAccess translation by A. S. Kline: www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French...
‘Portrait of Victor Hugo’ - Aimé Morot (French, 1850–1913)
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 08/01/2026
Twenty-two of Alfred de Musset's poems including songs, sonnets, and longer narrative works that address love, memory, place, and the nature of the poetic arts. Now available as new #OpenAccess translations by A. S. Kline: www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French...
‘Alfred de Musset’ - Mme Marie Moulin. Paris: 1848
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 12/11/2025
John Lydgate of Bury (c. 1370 – c. 1451) an English monk and poet, was born in Lidgate, near Haverhill, in the county of Suffolk. Read this #OpenAccess edition of his early works - influenced by Chaucer’s writings and modernised by A. S. Kline. www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Englis...
‘The knight took the beautiful girl in his arms...’ - Arthur Rackham (English, 1867-1939)
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 12/11/2025
Dating from the late 13th/early 14th century, Sir Orfeo, a Breton ‘lay’ relates a tale derived from that of the Orpheus of Greek myth, here a royal hero who rescues his wife from the King of the Faeries. Read A. S. Kline's #OpenAccess translation: www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Englis...
‘Flame Heath’ - Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (English, 1833 – 1898)
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 12/11/2025
Rainer Maria Rilke’s ‘Notes on the Melody of Things’ derives from his relationship with Lou Andreas-Salomé, the Russian-born psychoanalyst who was a friend of Freud and Friedrich Nietzsche. Read A. S. Kline's #OpenAccess translation: www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/German...
‘Power of Music’ (1852) - Louis Gallait (Belgian, 1810 – 1887)
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 12/11/2025
Théophile Gautier’s autobiographical note was first published by Jean Auguste Marc in Sommités Contemporaines, 1867, alongside a portrait of Gautier, after a photograph by ‘Bertall’ (Charles Albert d’Arnoux). Read A. S. Kline's #OpenAccess translation: www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French...
Portrait of Gautier, after a photograph by ‘Bertall’ (Charles Albert d’Arnoux)
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 17/09/2025
"But he was of this world, where the finest of things Meet the worst of fates." Read A. S. Kline's #OpenAccess translation of Gautier's Captain Fracasse With restored engravings by Gustave Doré www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French...
Gustave Doré (1832-1883) - That evening, at the château of Sigognac, was a melancholy one.
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 16/09/2025
"I imagined the world to be full of delightful young men, and that, on the road, one would meet many an Esplandián, or Amadis, or Lancelot of the Lake, in pursuit of their Dulcinea, and was astonished to find that the male sex takes very little interest in so sublime a quest."
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 31/08/2025
Théophile Gautier visited Belgium in 1836, accompanied by his friend Gérard de Nerval (nicknamed Fritz). Read this new #OpenAccess translation by A.S. Kline of his travelogue - A Tour in Belgium (Un Tour en Belgique, 1836, 1846). www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French...
Antwerp. Charles Euphrasie Kuwasseg (French, 1833-1904).
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 31/08/2025
Théophile Gautier briefly visited Greece during his return journey from Constantinople in 1852. Read this new #OpenAccess translation by A.S. Kline of his travelogue - An Excursion in Greece (Excursion en Grèce, 1852): www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French...
View of Athens with the Acropolis and the Odeion of Herodes Atticus. Purser William (English, 1785-1856).
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 31/08/2025
"On Sundays, every true Englishman…shuts himself away in his house to…enjoy…the happiness of being…neither French nor a Papist" Read this new #OpenAccess translation by A.S. Kline of Théophile Gautier's - A Day in London (Une Journée à Londres, 1842) www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French...
View From Waterloo Bridge, Embracing St. Pauls, Somerset House And Temple. David Roberts (Scottish, 1796-1864).
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 31/08/2025
In 1869, Gautier was invited to the Suez Canal inauguration but broke his arm en route. Despite this injury he reached Cairo - one of his three "dream cities" alongside Granada and Venice - viewed the Pyramids, attended the ceremony, then left for Italy.
Cairo, from the gate of Citzenib, looking towards the desert of Suez. (1846-1849). David Roberts (Scottish, 1796-1864)
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 17/06/2025
During these troubled times, experience the Middle East through the eyes of France's literary giants - writers who captured the world during an epoch where French culture reigned supreme. Four #OpenAccess books to transport you across time and continents...
The Itinerary
Chateaubriand, François-René de (1768–1848), translated by Kline, A. S.Travels in the Near East (Voyage en Orient, 1843)
Nerval, Gérard de (1808-1855), translated by Kline, A. S.Constantinople (1852)
Gautier, Théophile (1811–1872), translated by Kline, A. S.Egypt (1869)
Gautier, Théophile (1811–1872), translated by Kline, A. S.
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 16/06/2025
"I...gazed one last time towards Constantinople...with that indefinable melancholy which grips the heart when one leaves a city one will likely never see again" Read A. S. Kline's #OpenAccess translation of Théophile Gautier's travels to Constantinople: www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French...
The Galata Bridge, Constantinople
Hermann David Salomon Corrodi (Italian, 1844-1905)
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 13/05/2025
"To your enchanted shore, An echo passed, over the sea, The ancient refrain of the Moor: ‘Love, Glory, and Liberty!" A. S. Kline's translations of selected poems by Gérard de Nerval's Sylvie, are now available as an #OpenAccess work: www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French...
Moonrise over the Sea (1822) - Caspar David Friedrich (German, 1774-1840)
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 12/05/2025
"Such are the illusions that charm and mislead us in the morning of life." A. S. Kline's translation of Gérard de Nerval's Sylvie, is now available as an #OpenAccess work: poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French... The novella deals with the themes of love, and time lost and recalled.
Sylvie, 1896 - André des Gachons (1871-1951)
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 01/05/2025
Abigail Dyer's "singing" translation of Wagner's opera The Master Singers of Nuremberg, is now available as an #OpenAccess work: www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/German... …Wagner's work follows the poet Walther von Stolzing as he aims to win the hand of Eva Pogner in a contest of art and love.
Wandering Minstrel; Old Nuremberg (1843–84) - Alexandre-Louis Leloir (French, 1843-1884)
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 22/04/2025
"This was my dream ... and this my awakening! The sky and the sea are still here; the sky of the East" Gérard de Nerval's Travels in the Near East ("Voyage en Orient), is now available in a new, modernised #OpenAccess translation by A. S. Kline: www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French...
The Courtyard of a house in Cairo, 1868 - 1881, Willem de Famars Testas
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 21/02/2025
A. S. Kline's translation of The Seafarer - discussed by Sasha Neal at The Poetry Shelf: thepoetryshelf.substack.com/p/4-from-the...
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5: From The Seafarer
Author unknown (translated by A.S. Kline)
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 19/02/2025
"I will be spoken, on people’s lips: and, famous through all the ages...I shall live." A.S. Kline's translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses is now available as an audiobook, narrated by Jack Wynters. Sample: soundcloud.com/user-5854926... Buy: www.amazon.com/Audible-The-...
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Ovid: The Metamorphoses
The Metamorphoses by Ovid: Audio sample 4mins 22secs (full duration 16h 32mins) Translated by A. S. Kline (Poetry in Translation) Narrated by Jack Wynters (Wyntersea Productions) Read and/or download
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 24/01/2025
Théophile Gautier's travelogue "Voyage en Russie," recounting his travels through Russia in 1858-59 and 1861, mainly to Saint Petersburg, Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod, is now available in a new, modernised #OpenAccess translation by A. S. Kline: www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French...
View of the Cathedral of Christ The Saviour, Moscow. Mikhail Markianovich Germachev (Russian, 1868-1930).
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 20/01/2025
Goethe's Venetian Epigrams, presenting a more cynical and disillusioned, yet arguably realistic, view of Italy and Venice at the turn of the 19th century, is now available in a new #OpenAccess translation by A. S. Kline: www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/German...
A View Of Venice With The Doge’s Palace, Saint Mark’s Campanile And Santa Maria Della Salute (1821) - Roberto Roberti (1786-1837)
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 18/01/2025
A. S. Kline's #OpenAccess translations of Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics have been updated with engravings from the 1697 Tonson edition of John Dryden’s translation. Now also available in paperback: www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/...
Cover of Virgil's Eclogues—ten bucolic poems freely imitating Theocritus' Idylls and creating a pastoral world of love and song—and his Georgics—a poetic treatise on farming in four books.
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 18/01/2025
Théophile Gautier's travelogue "Voyage en Italie" recounting his journey through Northern Italy in 1850, with a focus on Venice, is now available in a new, modernised #OpenAccess translation by A. S. Kline: www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French...
The Grand Canal, Venice, From The Ponte Dell’accademia, With Santa Maria Della Salute - Ippolito Caffi (Italian, 1809 - 1866)
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 06/11/2024
A. S. Kline's #OpenAccess translation of El Cantar de mío Cid ‘The Song of My Lord’ the oldest Castilian epic poem extant, and Spain’s national epic is now available in paperback. Published with illustrations by Josep Lluís Pellicer (Spanish, 1842-1901): www.poetryintranslation.com/Admin/Hardco...
Book cover of El Cantar de mío Cid ‘The Song of My Lord’.
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 06/11/2024
Théophile Gautier's travelogue "Voyage en Espagne" recounting his journey through the Iberian Peninsula in 1840, accompanied by art collector Eugène Piot, is now available in a new, modernised #OpenAccess translation by A. S. Kline: www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French...
Picadores in a Spanish Tavern at the Foot of the Alhambra (1842)
Wilhelm Gail (German, 1804–1890)
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 20/10/2024
We host more than 3320 public domain paintings, sketches, engravings and illuminations. Registered users can already save notes and bookmarks. Now, you can also save images to your private gallery for later viewing/downloading. Register here: www.poetryintranslation.com/Admin/Login....
A gallery of images from the Poetry in Translation user account.
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 14/10/2024
Abigail Dyer's "singing" translation of Wagner's Romantic opera Tannhäuser, is now available as an #OpenAccess work: www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/German... Wagner's work merges the legends of the medieval poet Tannhäuser and the Wartburg Song Contest.
‘Tannhäuser on the Venusberg (1864)’
Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836-1904)
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 07/09/2024
A. S. Kline’s new translation of Aloysius Bertrand's series of prose poems, Gaspard de la Nuit is now available as an OpenAccess work: www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French... Bertrand is credited with later inspiring Baudelaire to pen his set of prose-poems ‘Le Spleen de Paris’.
Gaspard de la Nuit, 1868
Félicien Rops (French, 1833-1898) - National Gallery of Art
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 29/08/2024
Abigail Dyer's "singing" translation of Wagner's Romantic opera Tristan and Isolde, is now available as an #OpenAccess work: www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/German... Wagner's tragic work was inspired by medieval legends, particularly the 12th-century tales of Tristan and Iseult.
‘Isolde, The Celtic Princess (1911)’
Gaston Bussière (French, 1862-1929)
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 10/07/2024
Abigail Dyer's "singing" translation of Wagner's own libretto for his opera Parsifal, is now available as an #OpenAccess work: www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/German... Wagner's libretto is freely based on Wolfram von Eschenbach's poem Parzival, and Chretien de Troyes' romance Perceval.
Motif from the prequel to the Parsifal narrative - by Franz Stassen (1869-1949)
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 01/07/2024
We're delighted to welcome Abigail Dyer as a contributor to Poetry in Translation. Her "singing" translation of Richard Wagner's romantic opera, Lohengrin, is now available as an #OpenAccess text: www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/German...
‘Prélude de Lohengrin, Wagner (1892)’
Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836-1904)
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 13/05/2024
"Under a wide grey sky, on a large dusty plain, without paths, without grass, without a thistle, without a nettle, I met several men bent over as they walked." Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris, in a new #OpenAccess English translation by A. S. Kline: www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French...
Spleen et Idéal’ - Félix-Hilaire Buhot (French, 1847-1898)
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 17/04/2024
"Came Pero Bermúdez, with the banner in hand, And, upon the topmost point, set it on high. Then spoke my Lord Cid, the famed Campeador: ‘Give thanks to God now, and His saints above" A new, #OpenAccess translation by A. S. Kline of El Cantar de mío Cid: poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Spanis...
Frontis for El Cantar de mío Cid showing weapons and armour.
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 21/12/2023
I mourn now for Adonis: he is dead, the fair Adonis; ... Sleep no more, fair Cypris, under your purple covers, Wake to your pain; in black robes, beat your breast. Lament for Adonis and The Lament for Bion. A new, #OpenAccess translation by A. S. Kline: www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/...
Venus mourning the dead Adonis - Antonio Canova (1800)
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 19/12/2023
More details on the new features we shipped yesterday. First, inclusion of dark mode for night-time reading: 1/
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 18/12/2023
Our Xmas update has now shipped: - Better performance; - Accessibility features: dark/light mode & font resizing; - Author/work descriptions on download pages & via tooltips; - Page-position bookmarking & note entry (with free user account). Happy festivities! www.poetryintranslation.com/index.php
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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 16/11/2023
I bring my song to the bards’ holy rites. What teaches the parrot to squawk: ‘Hello!’ And urges the magpie to try human speech?
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