Well, Robin, you know my thoughts on Graves. Let us agree to differ there.
As to the Chapman, wasn't its purpose to be a seed-bed for Keats?! But I
heard David Constantine on Chapman when he delivered the Bloodaxe Poetry
Lecture series in 2003, on the general theme of translation -- a wonderful
picture of Keats walking home, absolutely fizzing with exhilaration after
reading Chapman all through the night with Charles Cowden Clarke.
best joanna
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From: "Robin Hamilton" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 9:13 PM
Subject: Re: Christopher L/ Illiad
>
> Ah, well, there's always Graves' +The Anger of Achilles+.
>
> :-(
>
> R.
>
> And George "On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer" Chapman
>
> The Pedant
>
> ASIDE:
>
> *** yah boo sucks -- bet you didn't know *that*, Joanna -- only time I
> know
> it got performed was Edinburgh Festival in the seventies.
>
> Bloody awful -- I sat through a performance with ex-Mary, and it was one
> of
> the few times when our musical ears resonated in harmony -- we *both*
> loathed it.
>
> Robin Roy McGregor Campbell.
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