Haven't been I touch with Dora for a while. Will send here a message. (email me - I messaged your substack a while ago - how is Paris and life etc. - nice podcast!) Let's catch up.
Oh dear! Sorry if I didn't reply. It took me a while to notice the messaging feature on substack so some early ones got lost, and for comments the notifications are not always reliable I find. (Something they should try and sort out actually.) Would love to know what you are up to.
Thank you for having Victoria on. I’ve enjoyed her essays at Horace & Friends for some time, before venturing properly into Substack. It was interesting to hear her answers and also good to have some names of unfamiliar poets to follow up on.
Hello Martin. I think I mentioned Donald Davie, "The New Oxford Book of Christian Verse". That's just Christian poetry, obviously, but I think it's the best anthology of religious verse I've read. Very different, but I also quite like the one Rowan Williams did recently, with his own brief intros to each poem. The explanations for his choices are interesting.
Hello Keir. This conversation with Henry was a while ago but it was probably Jon Stallworthy's original "Penguin Book of Love Poetry'; he later revised it as the "New Penguin Book of Love Poetry" and they are not massively different but I slightly prefer the original. I discussed a few anthologies of love poetry (including these) in this piece: https://vamoul.substack.com/p/love-in-revision
I should say I think this translation is a sublime piece of work, and that Proust translates into English very well, perhaps because of how seriously he read Ruskin, but I know a lot of people dislike Scott Moncrieff
Completely brilliant but I'd have been AMAZED if it hadn't been! Get well Henry - thanks to you and Victoria...
Thanks :)
We were at school together!
My “Ben knows literally everyone” hypothesis confirmed again haha
Ha. I like to think we have good taste, and tend to bump into one another!
Ha yes! Hello Ben. Funnily enough I just had an email from Dora a few minutes ago.
Haven't been I touch with Dora for a while. Will send here a message. (email me - I messaged your substack a while ago - how is Paris and life etc. - nice podcast!) Let's catch up.
Oh dear! Sorry if I didn't reply. It took me a while to notice the messaging feature on substack so some early ones got lost, and for comments the notifications are not always reliable I find. (Something they should try and sort out actually.) Would love to know what you are up to.
This is a really interesting conversation, Henry. Love it to bits.
I felt the same. Such breadth of knowledge!
Such breadth indeed. Wow.
great stuff man
yeah I thought Victoria was splendid
Thank you for having Victoria on. I’ve enjoyed her essays at Horace & Friends for some time, before venturing properly into Substack. It was interesting to hear her answers and also good to have some names of unfamiliar poets to follow up on.
Was there a recommendation of an anthology of religious verse there somewhere? I had a little trouble keeping up! Would be very grateful for details..
Hello Martin. I think I mentioned Donald Davie, "The New Oxford Book of Christian Verse". That's just Christian poetry, obviously, but I think it's the best anthology of religious verse I've read. Very different, but I also quite like the one Rowan Williams did recently, with his own brief intros to each poem. The explanations for his choices are interesting.
And do you know the name of the editor the love poetry Anthology you recommended?
Hello Keir. This conversation with Henry was a while ago but it was probably Jon Stallworthy's original "Penguin Book of Love Poetry'; he later revised it as the "New Penguin Book of Love Poetry" and they are not massively different but I slightly prefer the original. I discussed a few anthologies of love poetry (including these) in this piece: https://vamoul.substack.com/p/love-in-revision
Thank you so much!
Thanks!
Okay. Why did you choose that particular translation?
It was available at the library and i liked it — I had waited for the new one having read that SM wasn’t so good but it’s it just splendid
Henry, did you read Proust in translation? If so, which one?
I am reading Scott moncrieff
I should say I think this translation is a sublime piece of work, and that Proust translates into English very well, perhaps because of how seriously he read Ruskin, but I know a lot of people dislike Scott Moncrieff
I read a fascinating essay somewhere a few months ago comparing all the English translations. I’ll try to remember where I saw it.