Richard Zenith, Translator and Pulitzer Finalist: "Love Poetry of Epic Proportions: Translating Camões at 500" (Cosponsored by Consulate General of Portugal in Boston, by Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center for Renaissance Studies)
Date and Time
October 31, 2024
06:00PM - 06:00PM EDT
Location
Barker Center, Room 110 (Thompson Room), 12 Quincy St, Cambridge MA, 02138
Also cosponsort by Camões - Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua.
Celebrating the 500th birthday of Luís de Camões (1524-1580), Tagus Press has published a new, significantly revised edition of the great Renaissance poet’s lyric poetry, Sonnets and Other Poems. The translator, Richard Zenith, will be in conversation with Adam Mahler to discuss what makes this body of work so fascinating and its appeal so enduring, illustrating his remarks with readings from the poems. He will also consider the challenges he faced when rendering it into English.
How To Join
Open to the public.