The figure of zeugma in Vergil’s AENEID and Bob Dylan’s “Isis.”
Poetry
Hypermetry in Bob Dylan’s “Hurricane”
On the prosody of Horace and Bob Dylan.
The Paradox of Ekphrasis
On the visual in the verbal, the timeless in the temporal.
Luther’s “On the Freedom of a Christian,” Versified
Metrical Martin Luther.
“Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust”
The afterlife of a phrase about death.
“Love Minus Zero”: An Epigram by Henrik Harder
A new translation of Henrik Harder.
“Nunc dimittis”: A Poem for the Presentation of Our Lord
A poetic version of the “Song of Simeon,” based on the fourth-century Latin poet Juvencus.
Is Translation Possible?
On translating poetry.
“Love and Fear”: Another Epigram by Henrik Harder
An epigram on the love and fear of God.
“Up All Night, Annas Gluts Himself”: Georg Fabricius, Hymns 1.7
Here is the seventh poem in Georg Fabricius's hymn cycle. Here is a link to the sixth. The meter and rhyme-scheme is the same as the others. The Latin text: Nox intempesta. TERTIA PARS NOCTIS. Historia coram Pontificibus. CHRISTUS VINCTUS, ET adductus ad Annam. Zach....