Friday, March 06, 2020

A tiny epic …

… The Enduring Grace of the Trivial: On “The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice” - Los Angeles Review of Books.

It takes real poetic skill to parody a master so subtly that the result becomes mistaken for the poetry of the master himself at play. And now, in A. E. Stallings translation of the Batrachomyomachia, we have what seems a comparably ambitious and convincing re-creation of that ancient recreation.

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