Conference Paper, 20th Century Literature Conference – University of Louisville – 1990
As dedicated and occasionally as inspiring a poet as Russia’s Anna Akhmatova or this country’s Louise Bogan, is Argentina’s Alfonsina Storni who has been overlooked by English speaking translators and critics. The dynamics of male/female tensions are keenly evident in Stornie’s poems.
In an unpublished lecture on “Modern Ireland,” Yeats wrote: “And style, whether of life or literature, comes, I think, from excess, from something over and above utility which wrings the heart.” Yeast’s proclivity for writing was derived from his obsessive concern with time, with how quickly it catapults one into old age.
Like Russia’s Anna Akhmatova, whom Jane Kenyon translated in 1985 with Vera Sandomirsky
Dunham, Jane Kenyon employs images that create emotional pressure, that are told with such
accuracy that the reader becomes witness to what Kenyon herself has observed.
n an unpublished lecture on “Modern Ireland,” Yeats wrote: “And style, whether of life or literature, comes, I think, from excess, from something over and above utility which wrings the heart.”