2thorold
I have been known to indulge from time to time.
(Typically I tend to find myself reading about one long poem a year, together with a bit of commentary/biography/background, what I jokingly call my Big Poet Projects. Last year it was The Prelude, this year Chaucer.)
(Typically I tend to find myself reading about one long poem a year, together with a bit of commentary/biography/background, what I jokingly call my Big Poet Projects. Last year it was The Prelude, this year Chaucer.)
3alaudacorax
Thanks for the timely reminder--I bought Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey a month or so back and I'd forgotten all about it. I've read and enjoyed other translations, as well as of the The Iliad and The Aeneid. Also The Song of Roland, Beowulf and a host of shorter poems.
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You've reminded me I've never got round to the sagas, though. Don't know why as I've always intended reading them, especially Erik the Red's Saga ('intended to' for decades!)
ETA - Having written that last paragraph, I just had a rummage around online and it seems that the sagas were not actually poetry; 'prose containing chunks of poetry' seems a better description. I'd always imagined them as of the nature of Beowulf.
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You've reminded me I've never got round to the sagas, though. Don't know why as I've always intended reading them, especially Erik the Red's Saga ('intended to' for decades!)
ETA - Having written that last paragraph, I just had a rummage around online and it seems that the sagas were not actually poetry; 'prose containing chunks of poetry' seems a better description. I'd always imagined them as of the nature of Beowulf.
4bookstopshere
just asking because I have far too many of these laying around and I'm likely not to reread most of them, but I would cheerfully ship them to good homes. If interested, just pm me
5thorold
>4 bookstopshere: Thanks for the offer! Not searching for anything just now, with rather a lot on the TBR, but when I do get round to narrative verse again I'll try to remember to check with you first.
