Selected Translations

by Snodgrass, W. D.

• ISBN13: 9781880238608
• ISBN10: 1880238608
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-04-01
• Publisher: Boa Editions

Summary

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, W.D. Snodgrass's SELECTED TRANSLATIONS offers us the imaginative power and the playful wisdom of poems, folk songs, fables, street songs, drinking lyrics, ballads, and art songs gleaned from more than 500 years of Western tradition. Whether from Hungary, Scandinavia, Italy, Romania, Poland, France, or Germany, these poetic translations are sure to delight.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 11
Poems
Europa	p. 17
The Four Seasons	p. 20
On My Child's Death	p. 22
El Desdichado	p. 23
Junker Schmidt	p. 24
Remembrance of Things Past: Heine-esque	p. 24
The Deaconess and the Worm: A Fable	p. 25
Love of Honor	p. 25
Star	p. 27
Sonnets (I)	p. 27
One Wish Left	p. 28
Now the Songbirds, All Adrowse	p. 29
Memory	p. 31
The Knee	p. 33
The Mousetrap	p. 33
The Spheres	p. 35
Palmstrom to a Nightingale Which Would Not Let Him Sleep	p. 35
The Questionnaire	p. 36
The Pike	p. 37
The Wallpaper Flower	p. 38
from Sonnets to Orpheus	p. 39
An Archaic Torso of Apollo	p. 44
Slumbersong	p. 45
The Panther	p. 46
The Villages	p. 47
Somnambulist Ballad	p. 48
Dog After Love	p. 51
Licentia Poetica	p. 52
Between	p. 53
Penal Colony	p. 53
I Bound Up the Trees' Eyes	p. 55
Peasants	p. 56
Shakespeare	p. 56
Thieves	p. 57
Fortress	p. 58
An Amoeba	p. 59
Behind Closed Doors	p. 60
Sibiu in Mist	p. 61
Folk Songs and Ballads
French Folk Ballad
The White Doe	p. 65
Five Hungarian Folk Songs
The Bad Wife	p. 68
Time to Settle Down Now	p. 69
Carriage, Wagon, Carriage, Sled	p. 70
If I Climbed That Mountain	p. 70
Near the Csitar Mountain Foothills	p. 71
Two Romanian Folk Ballads
The Ewe Lamb	p. 72
Master Builder Manole	p. 76
Four Romanian Folk Songs
You Full Bottle, Here's a Kiss	p. 87
Holy Father, Worthy Priest	p. 87
Oh My Sweetheart, My Poor Baby	p. 88
Poor, Unhappy, Long-horned Ox Heads	p. 88
Seven German Folk Songs
Within My Father's Garden	p. 89
We've Got to Go Off to the Wars	p. 89
Nine Tailors Held a Council	p. 90
What Do We Geese Wear for Clothes?	p. 91
Three Street Songs	p. 92
Whiner, Squawker, Snottysnout
Twixt the Mountain and the Dale
It's Down to Grass a Maiden Would
Three Swedish Folk Songs
In My Eighteenth Year	p. 94
We're Ready to Wander	p. 94
Oh, Peter, Don't Go Just Yet	p. 95
Art Songs
A New Song for New Days	p. 99
Ladies With Cats	p. 100
The Nothing Song	p. 103
The Peasant Lassie	p. 105
A Far-off Love	p. 108
Now When I See the Lark Uplift	p. 110
Beg Pardon, Lords	p. 112
Then Daylight Came	p. 114
Under the Linden	p. 116
Years Long Gone	p. 118
Dark Leaves Are Flying	p. 120
There Came a Time	p. 121
Lady Who Locks My Soul	p. 127
Wet with Dews	p. 129
Such Sorrows Lie In Loving Thee	p. 131
Who Wants to Cure a Migraine	p. 132
While Softer Breezes All Sigh	p. 133
Do It So It's Done	p. 134
All Sorts of Drunkards	p. 136
Hylas Proposes to Not Get Married	p. 140
The Organ Grinder	p. 142
In Praise of Reason	p. 143
Notes	p. 147
Acknowledgments	p. 153
About the Author	p. 155
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