ictus [ik-tuhs] 1. In prosody the stress, beat or rythmical accent of a poem 2. In medicine a seizure, a stroke or the beat of the pulse
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Showing posts with label Michael Hamburger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michael Hamburger. Show all posts
Monday, 10 October 2011
Attila Blues
My brief review of The Iron-Blue Vault: Selected Poems of Attila Jozsef (Bloodaxe) is up on the BookGeeks site :
http://www.bookgeeks.co.uk/category/reviews/
To compare and contrast the quality of these Bloodaxe translations by Frederick Turner (often over-strict in metre, to my mind, and at times wonky in diction) I found an interesting e-book featuring around 20 versions I think from the 60s by diverse hands, including Michael Hamburger and Vernon Watkins - this selection also reprints Jozsef's fascinating autobiographical 'CV' from 1937, the same year he died:
http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~lukacs/ja/poems2/jozsef-eng.htm
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