----- Original Message ----- From: "Antonio Cussen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <mantovano@virgil.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 5:16 AM Subject: Re: VIRGIL: Loeb for student text?
El 05-09-2006, a las 14:32, Leofranc Holford-Strevens escribió: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christine Perkell > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >> why not order two different paperbacks--one Aeneid, one Eclogues/ >> Georgics. I should think the Loeb would be deadly. >> > I admit to knowing nothing about what students want, even in Britain > let alone in America, nor have I ever looked at the Loeb in question > beyond seeing what Goold had to say about some difficulty, but what is > being sought in an English translation: something that gives a > reasonable approximation to the surface sense, or something that has > literary life? I can imagine that the former, if in workaday prose, > would be deadly, and the latter convey too much of the wrong life; > personally I find (for instance) Dryden a lot easier to take than Day > Lewis, but that is because I appreciate seventeenth-century poets more > than twentieth, not because in either case I feel I am reading Vergil. > > Leofranc Holford-Strevens > -- > *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* > _* > > Leofranc Holford-Strevens > 67 St Bernard's Road usque > adeone > Oxford scire MEVM nihil est, nisi ME scire hoc sciat > alter? > OX2 6EJ > > tel. +44 (0)1865 552808(home)/353865(work) fax +44 (0)1865 > 512237 > email: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home)/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > (work) > > *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* > _* > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. > Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message > "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You > can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
