Comments on: Robert Fagles — the man behind Achilles — dies

By: Barry Johnson

Barry Johnson — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:46:59 +0000

Hi, David! You’ll like Fagles’ Odyssey better, I think. I have Lattimore’s translation on my desk now for comparison purposes and Fagles’ is just more robust, compressed, direct to my mind. Glad you found Art Scatter!

By: David McMorran

David McMorran — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:54:09 +0000

Gee, Barry, now I’ll have to reread the ‘Odyssey’. My first read was the Lattimore translation which was fair enough, but I like your quoted translation from the ‘Illiad’.

By: barry

barry — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:06:14 +0000

Mindy, thank you so much for visiting and for your kind words! No one “reads” a dance as well as you do…

By: Mindy Aloff

Mindy Aloff — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:14:24 +0000

I learned about this blog thanks to dance critic Martha West, one of Portland’s own cultural treasures. On the strength of this entry, about Robert Fagles, and the previous one, about Deborah Jowitt, I think it’s one of the finest arts columns in the country–for the range, the knowledge, the intelligence, the passion, and the writing(!)
Way to go, Barry Johnson!