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Bacchae, the Norton Library by Euripides; Aaron Poochigian (Translator)
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: The\Norton Library
?Poochigian's translation is a triumph?a remarkably lucid and vibrant rendition . . . The script's language is precise yet sonorous, expertly constructed in iambic pentameter to both moving and chilling effect.? --Aram Kouyoumdjian, Asbarez ?By far the most theatrically assured rendition of the play I ...Show more
Mahabharata, The Norton Library by SATYAMURTI, CAROLE
Category: Reference | Series: The\Norton Library
About Carole Satyamurti's translation "Carole Satyamurti's version of the Mahabharata moves swiftly and powerfully. She has found a voice that's capable of a wide variety of expression, and a line--basically classical English blank verse with a jazz-like freedom to swing--that propels the reader effort ...Show more
Metamorphoses, the Norton Library by Charles Martin (Translator); Emily Wilson (Introduction by); Ovid
Category: Philosophy | Series: The\Norton Library
Winner of the 2004 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets, Charles Martin's blank-verse translation of the Metamorphoses is a??smoothly readable, accurate, charming, subtle yet clear? (Richard Wilbur) version that ?highlights [the poem's] lightness and pervasive sense ...Show more
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