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Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most... →
Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force of the wind and weather. That whole scene is... →
In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how would this go for him? Would this do or... →
The heart of the matter seems to me to be the direct interaction between one's making a poem in English and a poem in the language that one... →
There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.
Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his... →
I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of... →
The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as the songs of Homer.
I think that everyone who took part has always been grateful for it.
One should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a vast amount he did understand about Homer.
I think there are perhaps two ways in which one can begin.
I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition.