it was the translations themselves that governed their selections, at least in part. These poems have a strongly contemporary feel, no matter what their date of origin, and a wide range of excellent poet-translators appear, including Seamus Heaney, Anne Carson, Fleur Adcock, Tony Harrison, James Merrill and WS Merwin. Of course Ezra Pound is present--but in one tiny fragment from Palladas. (I would have liked more of him, as in his oddly compelling version of Sophocles's Women of Trachis.) The four editors themselves are first-rate translators, and they are appropriately present.
from Jay Parini: The Guardian: The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present edited by Peter Constantine, Rachel Hadas, Edmund Keeley & Karen Van Dyck
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