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W B Yeats and Paul Celan

Posted on August 27, 2020February 21, 2024

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.

Aeneas escapes from Troy, but at a cost

Posted on August 26, 2020February 21, 2024

Today’s new poem continues the tale of Aeneas’s escape from the sack of Troy. Hear the poem and afollow a translation here. The blog post with a beautiful image by Auguste Rodin is here.

Catullus’s farewell to his brother

Posted on August 22, 2020February 21, 2024

Today’s new poem is Catullus’s tender and dignified farewell to his lost brother. Hear the poem in Latin and follow it in English here and see the blog post and illustration here.

Daedalus and Icarus

Posted on August 19, 2020February 21, 2024

Today’s new poem is Ovid’s account of the fall of Icarus. See the sumptuous illustration from the Louvre in the blog post and hear the poem in Latin and follow in English here.

Racine’s Phèdre

Posted on August 10, 2020February 21, 2024

Today’s new poet is Jean Racine, 1638 – 1699, one of the great flowering of French dramatists in the 17th century. See his poet page with portrait here, the blog post with illustration here and hear an extract from his great play Phèdre here in French with an English translation

Aeneas carries his Father Anchises to safety.

Posted on July 31, 2020February 21, 2024

In today’s post, Aeneas carries his Father Anchises to safety as Troy burns around them. Hear the poetry in Latin and follow it in English here. See the blog post with a painting by Johann Heinrich Schönfeld here.

The death of Priam

Posted on July 29, 2020February 21, 2024

In today’s poem, Aeneas witnesses the death of King Priam as Troy falls. Hear the Latin and follow the English here. See the blog post with a painting by Jean Baptiste Regnault here.

Is Catullus losing Lesbia

Posted on July 27, 2020February 21, 2024

Is Catullus losing Lesbia? It looks like it. See the blog post here and the poem here.

The fall of Troy begins

Posted on July 21, 2020February 21, 2024

Today’s post sees the beginning of the end for Troy as Hector warns Aeneas that the city is falling. See the blog post illustration here or go to the poem here.