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On Translating a Poem by Osip Mandelstam
www.bu.eduby the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam (born in Warsaw in 1891; died in the Vtoraya Rechka transit camp, near Vladivostok, in 1938). The poem was the celebrated “Epigram Against Stalin,” which begins with the line
A NEW VERSE TRANSLATION
www.dvusd.orgimpression that it was written (as Osip Mandelstam said of The Divine Comedy) "on official paper," which is unfortunate, since what we are dealing with is a work of the greatest imaginative vitality, a masterpiece where the structuring of the tale is as elab orate as the beautiful contrivances of its language. Its narrative
Dante’s Inferno: Critical Reception and Influence
dlcl.stanford.eduOsip Mandelstam in the early twentieth century to Seamus Heaney, W. S. Merwin, and Robert Pinsky at century’s end, modern poets of every bent have been drawn to the Inferno and to the other two canti-cles of the Comedy as an example of poetry’s world-creating power and of a single poet’s transcendence of his own spiritual, existential,