A prize-winning poet offers a contemporary translation of poems written by the greatest Greek love poet, whose thrilling lyric verse and mystique endures to be rediscovered by each generation. Original.
A prize-winning poet offers a contemporary translation of poems written by the greatest Greek love poet, whose thrilling lyric verse and mystique endures to be rediscovered by each generation. Original.
Born in Lewiston, Maine, Willis Barnstone was educated at Bowdoin, Columbia, the Sorbonne, and Yale. He taught in Greece at the end of the Civil War (1949–51), and in Buenos Aires during the Dirty War. During the Cultural Revolution he went to China where he was later a Fulbright Professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University (1984–85). Former O'Connor Professor of Greek at Colgate University, he is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish at Indiana University. A Guggenheim Fellow, his awards include a National Endowment for the Arts award, a National Endowment for the Humanities award and four Pulitzer Prize nominations for poetry. His work—which includes Modern European Poetry—(Bantam, 1967), The Other Bible (HarperCollins, 1984) and Poetics of Translation: History, Theory, Practice (Yale, 1993)—has appeared in, Harper's, New York Review of Books, Paris Review Poetry, the New Yorker, and the Times Literary Supplement.
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