Modern Poetry in Translation (Series 3 No 13): Polyphony, ed David and Helen Constantine

Some excellent short essays in this volume help to explain the nature of translation and its problems and challenges, almost as well as do the translated poems, laid side by side with their originals. My favourite was Sasha Dugdale's account of translating William Blake into Russian with a group of students in a town just outside Moscow. How to get across the sense of a self-taught poet at odds ...

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Thomas Worcester: From Princ e To Pastor: How the Papacy Has Changed

Times are indeed changing, even for popes. Maybe especially for popes. A new book explores how the papacy has changed greatly, and repeatedly, during the past 500 years through forces largely beyond its control.

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College essays help teens confront past, plan future

College Bound is a St. Louis organization that aims to help themost motivated students in ailing urban school districts get intoand succeed at selective colleges in out-state Missouri and inschools as far away as Maine, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin andMassachusetts.

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