This episode looks at four poems whose subject would seem to lie beyond words: the death of a child. A defining feature of elegy is the struggle between poetic eloquence and inarticulate grief, and in ...

Now, I've read some poetry in my time, and this translation of the Elegies of Theognis is at best dull, repetitive, and inherently self-contradictory. The elegies produce the impression of an ...

Pushkin Press is to republish Vita Sackwille-West's English translation of Duino Elegies, a poetry cycle by Rainer Maria Rilke. The publication will mark the first time the English translation has ...