The Binyon translation used to be available from Agenda. I don't know
whether it still is. William Cookson was at school with Binyon's nephew or
something, which is one of the reasons initially why Pound took an interest
in Agenda.
 
Agenda doesn't have a website; I believe they have email but I don't know
the address off-hand (it appears in a recent advertisement for the magazine
in the London Review of Books). The address in real space as opposed to
cyberspace is 5 Cranbourne Court, Albert Bridge Road, London SW11 4PE,
England.
 
Binyon tends to be remembered in the UK mostly as the author of "For the
Fallen", especially at this time of year:
 
"They grow not old, as we who are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
We will remember them."
 
I'd be interested to know if these lines are as well known in the US as they
are here.
 
By the way, the publisher of the Sisson re-issue is OUP. My own copy is a
Pan paperback.
 
Richard Edwards
 
 
>From: "Jonathan P. Gill" <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine
>  <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Translations of Dante
>Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 08:24:27 -0500
>
>Poundians obviously have lots at stake in this matter!  I'd put in my
>appeal for any translation that has the facing Italian and all three
>cantiche in one volume. Here at Columbia we use Mandelbaum, which is fine.
>We might also remember Binyon's translation, which Pound helped edit
>line-by-line (see pages and pages in Paige).  I have a terrific old Modern
>Library edition in hardcover--is it still available?
>
>And there's always Longfellow, who was the first president of the American
>Dante Society, the inventor of comparative literature, well-known
>judeophile, and...Pound's distant cousin!
>
>Jonathan Gill
>Columbia University
>
>
>On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Richard Edwards wrote:
>
> > If you want a good and readable translation of Dante, there's a lot to
>be
> > said for CH Sisson's version, recently re-issued by somebody or other
>(in
> > the UK at least). It doesn't attempt terza rima, a wise decision in my
>view.
> > Unfortunately what can't be said for it is that it has a parallel text
>in
> > Italian; it doesn't. But otherwise the apparatus (notes etc) is good.
> >
> > Richard Edwards
> >
> >
> > >From: pcockram <[log in to unmask]>
> > >Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
> > >To: [log in to unmask]
> > >Subject: Re: Looking to get Pounded...
> > >Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 01:16:48 -0500
> > >
> > >Steven,
> > >re the Odyssey, there are strong opinions about different translations.
> > >Lattimore is quite literal, Fitzgerald more fluid.  The new Fagles is
>good
> > >and
> > >has an introduction by Bernard Knox, a great classical scholar.
> > >     There are also strong differences about Dante translations.  I
>like
> > >Pinsky's
> > >better than I expected to; it is audacious in trying to accomplish an
> > >analogous
> > >but different sense of Dante's style -- but it is only the Inferno.
>The
> > >John
> > >Ciardi quite good and has very useful notes on the political and
>religious
> > >issues
> > >referred to (I've used it to teach Dante and found it as accessible as
> > >Dante can
> > >be).
> > >best,
> > >Patricia
> >
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