Friday, November 8, 2013

Thursday, November 7, 2013

Ashes

Edvard Munch Ashes, 1894
Oil on canvas 47 7/16 x 55 1/2" (120.5 x 141 cm) The National Museum of Art, Architecture, and Design/National Gallery, Oslo. (c) 2006 The Munch Museum/The Munch-Ellingsen Group/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

On translation: 2. Osip Mandelstam

just this for now:
http://www.bu.edu/translation/files/2011/01/Allen-Handout2.pdf

On translation: 1. Basho.

7a
It is deep autumn. 
My neighbour
How does he live, I wonder.
trans - R.H. Blyth

7b
Autumn's end
how does my
neighbour live?
trans - Strych

7c
In my dark winter
lying ill, at last I ask
how fares my neighbour?
trans - Beilenson


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