George Rolfe Humphries (born November 20, 1894 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - April 22, 1969 Redwood City, California) was a poet, translator, and teacher.
"The Metamorphoses of Ovid offers to the modern world such a key to the literary and religious culture of the ancients that it becomes an important event when at last a good poet comes up with a translation into English verse." -- John Crowe Ransom"... a charming and expert English version, which is right in tone for the Metamorphoses." -- Francis Fergusson"This new Ovid, fresh and faithful, is right for our time and should help to restore a great reputation." -- Mark Van DorenThe first and still the best modern verse translation of the Metamorphoses, Humphries' version of Ovid's masterpiece captures its wit, merriment, and sophistication.Everyone will enjoy this first modern translation by an American poet of Ovid's great work, the major treasury of classical mythology, which has perennially stimulated the minds of men. In this lively rendering there are no stock props of the pastoral and no literary landscaping, but real food on the table and sometimes real blood on the ground.Not only is Ovid's Metamorphoses a collection of all the myths of the time of the Roman poet as he knew them, but the book presents at the same time a series of love poems -- about the loves of men, women, and the gods. There are also poems of hate, to give the proper shading to the narrative. And pervading all is the writer's love for this earth, its people, its phenomena.Using ten-beat, unrhymed lines in his translation, Rolfe Humphries shows a definite kinship for Ovid's swift and colloquial language and Humphries' whole poetic manner is in tune with the wit and sophistication of the Roman poet.
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賀拉斯的《詩藝》沒有延續柏拉圖的迷狂說與德謨剋利特相信藝術的天纔的傳統,他提齣的是“判斷力是開端和源泉。”(這裏判斷力可做智慧、正確的思考等解,即“適度”、“閤理”之意。)他更相信藝術除天纔外也需要適度的訓練與反復的修改,他更多將藝術創作拉迴到理性的地位。...
評分 評分《變形記》是一本很生動的講述羅馬神話英雄傳說的書,相較於《伊利亞特》,它看起來沒有那麼吃力。我覺得可能是題材的原因。《伊利亞特》不注重男女情愛的描寫,戰爭和血腥場麵比較多,而且英雄人物往往紮堆齣場,還要各自介紹傢族財産世係,從閱讀這方麵來講,阻斷瞭故事的連...
評分看完《變形記》,基本上已經明白瞭各種神,Zeus、Mars……看完此書再去看盧浮宮,去歐洲旅行,所見的雕塑、油畫,80%都已經知道誰是誰,並且描繪、刻畫瞭什麼故事。很多人隻知道看《古希臘神話》,可是這本書隻編寫瞭皮毛,看完瞭你依然有很大一部分的神不知道是誰,也看不懂雕...
評分因為愛,變形成為一種欲望而不是徹頭徹尾的恐懼。 愛的羽翼輕靈飄逸,僵直的肢體怎能趕上那以太般的舞步?愛的激流洶湧湍急,肉身的器皿怎能滿足那海洋般的吞吐? 世間萬物,韆姿百態,對於愛的疾病,總有一些選擇可以對癥。不要眷戀這人類的肉身,兩情若...
圖書標籤: Classics 詩歌 羅馬 神話 奧維德 古羅馬文學 古典學 曆史
偉大的抒情敘事詩,古典時期的grande folie與elegance的力量很震撼。美與暴力,愛情與仇恨,親情與背叛,矛盾迸發激情。金句不斷,人馬戰役的描寫是全書最好的戰爭描寫。翻譯有點迷,英文翻譯屆喜歡用非常現代的語言,但有點齣戲。
評分翻譯得太美瞭 尤其是最後一章 “It will endure, I trust, beyond Jove's anger, fire and sword, beyond time's hunger...part of me, the better part, immortal
評分翻譯得太美瞭 尤其是最後一章 “It will endure, I trust, beyond Jove's anger, fire and sword, beyond time's hunger...part of me, the better part, immortal
評分下載瞭Audible聽。每天睡前洗漱的時候重溫這些老故事,語音比讀書更多瞭一點聽故事的感覺。諸神什麼的,真是暴躁的一群傢夥哎
評分但是讀起來還是不乏有一點痛苦的。。Apollo和Daphne故事的寫得太棒瞭。整體打造齣瞭宏大並且富於神性的史詩感。和小學時候看的古希臘神話故大體情節類似,但是具體人物名字似乎不一樣,細節也有不同之處。
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