Without Mythologies : New and Selected Poems and Translations

by Weinfield, Henry

• ISBN13: 9781933675268
• ISBN10: 1933675268
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-01
• Publisher: Small Pr Distribution

Summary

Poetry. Translation. "A poet of exquisite formal control, Henry Weinfield writes lyrical and narrative poems that have a rich, sad music for which the ear and the heart hunger"--Kevin Hart. "The secret of this poet's power lies in the music of his verse. If poetry consists foremost of harmony in words, Weinfield has perfect pitch! Whatever the subject, with the happy rhythms of dance and the lovely magic of verbal sound he always takes us along to that point, where all things and all words, even the most abstract, look new and fresh. This is a precious book"--Louis Dupre. Henry Weinfield is a poet, translator, and literary scholar. He is the author of a number of collections of poetry, including The Sorrows of Eros and Other Poems; of a translation of and commentary on the Collected Poems of Stephane Mallarme; and of a literary study, The Poet Without a Name: Gray's Elegy and the Problem of History. His poems, essays, and articles have appeared in numerous journals. His verse translation of Hesiod's Works and Days and Theogony (with Catherine Schlegel of the Classics Department) was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2006. He is a professor in the Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

Author Biography

Henry Weinfield is a professor in the Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame, where he has taught since 1991.

Table of Contents

Without Mythologies: New Poems
Hebrew Melodies
I The Wanderer	p. 3
II My Father Was a Wandering Aramaean	p. 4
III Without Mythologies	p. 5
Hektor, Tamer of Horses	p. 6
Greek Tragedy Salutes Doctor Freud	p. 7
The Tears of the Muses	p. 8
The News
I The Delivery Man	p. 12
II In Sierra Leone	p. 13
III Intifada	p. 14
Threads	p. 15
The Waves	p. 18
That Famous California Sun	p. 19
To Those Still Waiting for the Anti-Christ	p. 20
An Accounting	p. 21
The Crisis in the Middle East	p. 22
On the Destruction of the Buddhas in Bamiyan	p. 24
Praise and Lamentation	p. 27
August: The Lake at Notre Dame	p. 31
Idyllic Life	p. 32
In Memory of the Poets Bradford Stark and Elaine Schwager	p. 33
The Carnival Cantata (1971)
The Metrical Romance of Portland, Maine	p. 37
The Carnival Cantata	p. 38
In the Sweetness of the New Time (1980)
Gradus ad Parnassum	p. 41
Walking to Buxtehude	p. 42
The Laws of the Medes and Persians	p. 43
Slow Steps, the Muddy Shore	p. 44
Sarabande	p. 45
The Tomb of Couperin
I Passacaglia	p. 46
II The Soul in Pain	p. 47
III The Harlequin	p. 48
IV The Nightingale in Love	p. 49
Laura	p. 50
The Young Virgins Dancing on the Green	p. 51
Sirventes: Contra Infantes	p. 52
Ophelia	p. 53
The Horsemen	p. 54
The Fisherman and His Soul	p. 55
Ab la Dolchor	p. 57
The Book of Sir Tristram	p. 58
A Wordsworthian Dream in Blank Verse	p. 59
The Dolorous Wood	p. 61
Xerxes	p. 62
The Lives of the Poets	p. 65
Adam and Eve	p. 67
The Unicorn Tapestries	p. 69
The Old Man at the Dump (1974-1980)
I An Epithalamium	p. 75
II A Dirge	p. 76
III An Allegory	p. 77
IV A Song of Destiny	p. 79
The Sorrows of Eros and Other Poems (1999)
Sonnets Elegiac and Satirical	p. 89
An Essay on Violence	p. 102
Several Sonnets on the Subject of Sex	p. 105
Reification and the Consciousness of the Poet	p. 108
The Spirit of Utopia	p. 110
On Syberberg's Version of Parsifal	p. 112
Song for the In-Itself and For-Itself	p. 113
Archimago	p. 115
Fables from the Dark Ages	p. 117
To My Student, Colette	p. 121
Variations on the Forest of Arden	p. 123
Beauty and the Beast	p. 124
The Sorrows of Eros	p. 129
Buried Beneath the Language	p. 137
Selected Translations
Moesta et Errabunda (Baudelaire)	p. 141
Mignon (Goethe)	p. 142
Hyperion's Song of Destiny [Hyperions Schicksalslied] (Holderlin)	p. 143
Some Evening When You're Old [Quand vous serez bien vieille, au soir a la chandelle] (Ronsard)	p. 144
Five Medieval Dawn Songs
Reis Glorios (Giraut de Bornelh)	p. 145
S'Anc Fui Belha Ni Prezada (Cadenet)	p. 147
En un Vergier (Anonymous)	p. 149
Entre Moi et Mon Amin (Anonymous)	p. 150
Owe, Sol Aber Mir Iemer Me (Heinrich von Morungen)	p. 151
Lancan Vei Li Folha (Bernart de Ventadorn)	p. 153
Miei Sirventes (Bertran de Born)	p. 156
The Chimeras (Nerval)
El Desdichado	p. 157
Myrtho	p. 158
Horus	p. 159
Anteros	p. 160
Delphica	p. 161
Artemis	p. 162
Christ at Gethsemane	p. 163
Golden Sayings	p. 168
Notes	p. 169
About the Author	p. 185
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