Tuesday, October 21, 2008

(New to) Great Regulars: Novelist, poet and translator

Ursula Le Guin is best known for creating worlds of fantasy and of the far future, but that is only part of an acclaimed body of work that incorporates Eastern philosophy, anthropology, linguistics and feminist principles.

from findingDulcinea: Happy Birthday, Ursula Le Guin

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Throughout his career, [Robert] Pinsky has been praised for both his deep understanding of the human experience and the melodic form of his poems.

In 1994, after years spent poring over the original Italian text, Pinsky published his translation of Dante's “The Inferno,” in which he painstakingly recreated in English the rhythm of the original verse.

from findingDulcinea: Happy Birthday, Robert Pinsky

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