Ted Hughes’s translation of Racine’s Phèdre will be staged at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in January and published that month. His translation of the complete Oresteia, of which the poem in this issue is the opening, will be staged by the National Theatre in England and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in June. His last book was Birthday Letters. He died on October 28. (December 1998)
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The Watchman’s Lament
December 3, 1998
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Fever
March 5, 1998
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On Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’
July 17, 1997
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Two Poems from Crow
March 11, 1971
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Wings
November 3, 1966
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Tricksters And Tarbabies
December 9, 1965
Literature Among the Primitives by John Greenway
The Primitive Reader edited by John Greenway
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The Genius of Isaac Bashevis Singer
April 22, 1965
Satan In Goray by Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Family Moskat
by Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Magician of Lublin
by Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Slave by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Gimpel The Fool
by Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Spinoza of Market Street: by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Short Friday by Isaac Bashevis Singer
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A Hero’s History
December 31, 1964
Heimskringla by Snorri Sturluson, translated by Lee M. Hollander
The Prose Edda
by Snorri Sturluson, translated by Jean I. Young
Gods, Demons and Others by R.K. Narayan