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Unread 05-04-2017, 02:48 AM
Gregory Dowling Gregory Dowling is offline
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Yes, The Mother of the Muses is another fine poem.

One of the great things he has done is take "class" out of the classics; a classical education has always been the distinguishing mark of the upper classes in our culture. He has spent his life in trying to take all snobbery out of the classics - even if a poem like "V" admits the near-impossibility of doing so. But there's something wonderful in his determination to translate Aeschylus into deliberately Anglo-Saxon rather than Latinate English, which is part of the same struggle.

I did a long review of his Collected Poems and his Film Poetry for an Italian poetry-magazine (in English), which you can find here.
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