re: #412 wrenchwench

Well, I’ve only read them in translation, and anyone who has read them in any language is at the mercy of the transcribers, who may or may not have been poets…and yet, the genius comes through, “wine-dark sea” and all.

In my next life, I will know someone who wants to read the Alexander Pope translations aloud with me.

It’s funny, you know, my college girlfriend and I (geeks that we were) used to read from Donne to each other. Hyper-intellectual, but very romantic.

And sometimes, for kicks, we’d read Ovid and/or certain Greek poets to each other; passion in three languages. memories.