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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 29/08/2026

What a wonderful account. Thank you. Can heartily recommend the Abbaye de Jumièges just a short ferry trip over the channel in Normandy should you ever have a weekend free…

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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 · 09/08/2026

Never was there a better case than for a Lord of the Rings style casting of unknowns and lesser knowns who would be imprinted by the roles rather than vice versa… youtube.com/shorts/HqvSj...

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Every "Matt Damon" in Team America: World Police #TeamAmerica #MattDamon #shorts

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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 08/08/2026

I was among my flowers where some one Seemed to be raising them on trial As if after-while to be transplanted To a larger garden of freer air… Between the boxes pinching off leaves, Looking for bugs and noting values, With an eye that saw it all: “Homer, oh yes! Pericles, good.

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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 05/08/2026

Show me the SciFi and fantasy section…

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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 04/08/2026

Would say happy birthday…but is a bit tired…

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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 04/08/2026

@pangram.com is your friend. We no longer reply to AI-generated emails. Their free tier is sufficient for checking a few emails a day. Tbh though it’s obvious with 90% of these emails just from the tone.

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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

The series is called Severance…Except the outside world doesn’t exist.

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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

Read A. S. Kline's #OpenAccess translation of Théophile Gautier's epistolatory novel Mademoiselle de Maupin, published in 1835: www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French...

A portrait of a young lady in pink dress - Emile Eisman-Semenowsky (French, 1853 - 1918)

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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 · 20/06/2025

And yet by doing so creating the philosophical debate on what is real, individualistic human achievement and how can we protect and preserve it? After AI, will there never be another Ovid, or Dante Alighieri? And if so, what form should the memorial take?

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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 17/06/2025

Constantinople (1852) Gautier, Théophile (1811–1872), translated by Kline, A. S. www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French... Egypt (1869) Gautier, Théophile (1811–1872), translated by Kline, A. S. www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French...

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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 17/06/2025

The Itinerary Chateaubriand, François-René de (1768–1848), translated by Kline, A. S. www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Chatea... Travels in the Near East (Voyage en Orient, 1843) Nerval, Gérard de (1808-1855), translated by Kline, A. S. www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French...

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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 · 05/06/2025

Arcane was an example of how it should be done. Worth pausing from time to time just to gaze at the artwork. Maybe live action isn’t the best medium.

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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 17/05/2025

“Ahab stooped to clear it; he did clear it; but the flying turn caught him round the neck, and voicelessly … he was shot out of the boat, ere the crew knew he was gone … “ “The great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago”

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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 17/05/2025

A modern twist on The Library of Babel (Borges)?

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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 · 05/03/2025

Shortly to be followed by the “you can survive anything” paper weight…

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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 05/03/2025

Scorned masters of tortuous chance, also; With briny tears, their pale cheeks scored, They eat ashes with a like passion, But driven by the fate of the vulgar horde. They too could sound, to the drum’s stutter, Paul Verlaine, Luck www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French...

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Verlaine, Paul (1844–1896) - Les Poètes Maudits

Verlaine - Les Poètes Maudits. An English translation of Paul Verlaine's ‘Accursed’ Poets (Les Poètes Maudits), first published in 1884.

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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 22/02/2025

L’IA est fan d’Armand Schwerner. Qui l’aurait cru ?

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Poetry In Translation @poetryintranslation.com · 22/02/2025

Spent a *lot* of time scrolling through digital museum archives for illustration purposes. These photographs are a level above. Beautiful.

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