Dear Robin,
if there is one poetess I would be flattered to be
compared to, she is
Gaspara Stampa. What an amazing biography!
: your suggestions reveal your excellent insight
into Italian Literature.
I do not know of any other edition of her
poems translated into Englsih.
But I am myself a translator into Italian of poetry
(Geoffrey Hill, RS Thomas, Sylvia Plath,
Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin, and many others (also
included in an anthology I edited with Blake Morrison).
Why don't you try to send me here the Italian text and the translation of a
poems by Gaspara Stampa you particularly like and I will try to re-translate it
for you.
Regards,
EP
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Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2000 2:29 PM
Subject: Gaspara Stampa -- for
Erminia
> Erminia,
>
> Do you
know of any decent English translations of Gaspara Stampa? All the
>
ones I've found have been uniformly dreadful.
>
> Robin
Hamilton
>
