Homer begins the Iliad invoking the anger of Achilles; Virgil, in the Aeneid, sings of arms and the man; in “Leaves of Grass,” Whitman celebrates himself. And then there is the first verse of the ...
If translation sounds like a dusty occupation, you don't know the fearless work of Aaron Poochigian. This onetime Minnesotan spilled blood at the Guthrie Theater in 2020 with his visceral, ...
The rendering of Baudelaire's ground-breaking classic into English has been tackled numerous times in various ways since the 19th century. In this version, rather than utilizing rhymed stanzas, free ...
Odlin Redon, “Head of a Young Woman” (c. 1900-1916) (Photo: Harvard Art Museums, © President and Fellows of Harvard College) Symbolist artists — including ...
DURING the summer of the Paris Exhibition of 1867, while no mean part of the world was looking and wondering amid the noise of crowds at the remarkable works of invention and art, or thinking of the ...
duelluim from fleur du mal by Charles Baudelaire read by Steve Kusaba from the film Life Cycle of the Proletariat Charles Pierre Baudelaire is credited with coining the term modernity modernité to ...