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Dear italian-studies colleagues,
I am pleased to forward this on behalf of Mark Davie; if you have any
questions about this event, please write Mark at [log in to unmask]
All good wishes,
George
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Research Seminar - Dept of Modern Languages, University of Exeter
Max Wickert (State University of New York, Buffalo) will give a
seminar on
'On Translating a Renaissance Classic: Tasso’s Gerusalemme Liberata'
on Wednesday 18 March 2009 at 4.15 pm in LT 7, Queen’s Building,
University of Exeter (Streatham campus). All welcome.
Max Wickert’s verse translation of Torquato Tasso’s 16th-century epic
was published in February 2009 in Oxford World’s Classics, with
Introduction and Notes by Mark Davie. It is the first English
translation of the poem since Fairfax’s Godfrey of Bulloigne (1600)
to reproduce the eight-line stanza form of the Italian original. In
this seminar he will discuss some of the challenges of translating
ottava rima into English, with examples from the long tradition of
English narative poetry based on Italian models.
Max Wickert is also the author of two collections of poems, 'All the
Weight of the Still Midnight' and 'Pat Sonnets'. He is currently
translating a selection of Tasso’s lyric poetry.
For more information contact Mark Davie - [log in to unmask]
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George FERZOCO
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