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Unread 11-07-2009, 03:50 PM
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It's not originally in English, but it's about the most famous ekphrastic poem there is: Rilke's "Archaic Torso of Apollo." I didn't look all through the older thread, so I beg your pardon if it's already there.

We argued long and hard about it some time ago on translation, and I don't dare say that any translation is definitive. So here's a page that gives you four choices.
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