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Unread 04-16-2018, 07:20 AM
John Isbell John Isbell is offline
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I only know Ariosto's Orlando. Alfieri's tragedies are good, and he's a key figure in Italian literary history. People seem to like Agrippa d'Aubigné, of whom I've read nothing but (good) extracts. Boileau is OK, but in an inspired century, he to my mind wasn't. I don't know of any English translations of the German works I mentioned, but there's an Onegin I like a good deal, and it's not Nabokov's: it's Babette Deutsch's, which Dover put out cheaply. One of the pinnacles of European Romanticism, to my mind and that of the entire Russian-speaking world. :-)

Cheers,
John.

Update: Actually, I'm sure there are good translations of the Taugenichts. And you can find Heine in bilingual editions. Two great authors.

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