For Ezra Pound, SophoklesāĀ Women of TrachisĀ represented āthe highest peak of Greek sensibility registered in any of the plays that have come down to usā¦ā Nothing rhetorical, nothing long-winded survives in Poundās tragedy of Herakles. His language is lit with lights long extinguished in the traditionally ornate and airless verse translations. With no mincing, poetry speeds tragedy down its course to disaster. Poundās version ofĀ Women of TrachisĀ was first published by New Directions in 1957. Some twenty years earlier, in 1938, Pound had complained that there āwere no translations of these plays that an aware man can read without deadly boredom.ā He himself, as it turned out, supplied the remedy: hisĀ Women of TrachisĀ brings Sophokles into the world of the living.
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