#202: LEOPARDI.
#202: LEOPARDI. Yeats translated these lines from Sophocles: “Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say; / Never to have drawn...
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#201: HISTORY INTERRUPTED, OR THE HAVOCS OF EMPIRE.
#201: HISTORY INTERRUPTED, OR THE HAVOCS OF EMPIRE. In the long and unedifying history of invasions, military interventions, the...
#200: THE SADNESS OF ALL THIS.
#200: THE SADNESS OF ALL THIS. Like Norman Shapiro’s translations of Theophile Gautier, Richard Howard’s 2003 translations of the verse...