Dido has fallen for Aeneas, to her ultimate cost. See and hear the poem or see the blog with an illustration.
New today – follow the links to classic English translations of the opening lines of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey by Alexander Pope and George Chapman.
Today’s new poets are the Irishman W B Yeats and the German language Romanian poet Paul Celan. The poem by Yeats is his prophetic work of 1919, The Second Coming, with a link to a YouTube reading by the late Ted Hughes. From Celan’s poet page there is a link to his own recording of his great Holocaust poem, Todesfüge, with an English translation.