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.
發表於2025-03-22
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全書共十五捲,囊括瞭從開天闢地到作者所在的吳大維時期整個宇宙史。 《變形記》將大量羅馬人熟悉的神話傳說已故事套故事的框架串聯起來,其中包括:世界形成,丟卡利翁和皮拉 (大洪水),皮刺摩斯和提斯柏,代達羅斯和伊卡洛斯以及珀耳狄剋斯,鮑西絲和費萊濛,巴圖斯,納西...
評分當你有一天醒來,發現自己變成一隻甲蟲,你會怎麼辦?主人公格裏高爾第一時間告訴瞭自己的傢人,從自我逃避到麻木,失去最基本的廉恥心,最終他在自我放棄中走嚮瞭死亡。變成甲蟲後,他仍然在自我逃避,現實的重擔壓的他喘不過氣來但在變成甲蟲之後他卻連麵對現實的勇氣也沒有...
評分我的作品完成瞭。任憑硃庇特的怒氣,任憑刀、火,任憑時光的蠶蝕,都不能毀滅我的作品。時光隻能銷毀我的肉身,死期願意來就請它來吧,來終結我這飄搖的壽命。但是我的精萃部分卻是不朽的,它將與日月同壽;我的聲名也將永不磨滅。羅馬的勢力徵服到哪裏,那裏我的作品就會被人...
評分行至幽暗的地府邊緣,人界的微光已於眼前可觸,但他的身後是那樣悄寂,俄耳甫斯忍不住迴頭,看看妻子是否跟在身後。於是——誓言被打破,歐律狄刻發齣小鳥一樣的悲鳴,墜入黑暗的淵底。 這一迴頭成就瞭一齣永恒的愛情悲劇,本不該遭受的命運降臨瞭,人們哀嘆並自警。文字於此...
評分格呂紐斯的眼睛被那雙叉的鹿角刺穿,眼珠被擠瞭齣來,一個眼珠還粘在鹿角上,一個沿著他的鬍須滾下來,裹著凝結的血,垂掛著。……受瞭傷的卡拉剋素斯把亂發上的貪婪火焰甩掉,搬起一塊階石,扛到肩上,這塊石頭很重,足可以裝一車,因為太重瞭,無法嚮敵人投齣去。他的戰友科...
圖書標籤: Classics 詩歌 羅馬 神話 奧維德 古羅馬文學 古典學 曆史
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。
評分偉大的抒情敘事詩,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
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