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Prayer, love, loss and courage appear side by side in George Borrow's verse translations from thirty languages and dialects. The collection opens with a Hebrew ode to God and Arabic poems on devotion and death, then turns to Persian songs of roses, wine and longing. Turkish passages describe paradise and urge a poet to begin his undertakings in God's name. These short pieces give the anthology a changing rhythm and a wide range of voices.
Borrow's preface explains the difficulty of carrying a poem's distinctive tone into English verse, beyond simply translating its words. The later excerpts shift toward northern ballads: a Danish song celebrates Hvidfeld's resolve aboard a burning ship, while an ancient Danish fragment has Orm call to his father from the grave.
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- Author
- George Borrow
- Reading time
- About 40 minutes
- Pages
- 83
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Classical Poetry
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