Three Plays of Racine: Phaedra, Andromache, and Britannicus (Phoenix Books) - Softcover

Racine, Jean Baptiste

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226150771 ISBN 13: 9780226150772

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1961

Synopsis

"George Dillon has elected for speed and clarity; his speed, of which short quotations can impart no notion, is his equivalent for Racine's impetuous dexterity with the French Alexandrine. . . . Momentum, in such a version, is everything. It stands as a homage to Racine's strength of construction . . . and to the expressive power of his themes, on which Mr. Dillon's prefaces have eloquent and sensible things to say."—Hugh Kenner, National Review

"His literal and flexible blank verse actually forms the nearest thing in English to the longer-measured rhymed couplets of Racine; even an ordinary reading aloud of so faithful a rendering provides something of the experience that Proust described."—Elliott Coleman, Poetry

"A superb introduction . . . flawless translations, infused with poetic fire and charm."—Margaret Carpenter, Norfolk Virginian-Pilot

About this title

About the Author

George Dillon (1906-1968) was the editor of Poetry and author of two collections of poems, Boy in the Wind and The Flowering Stone. In 1931 he won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Dillon was co-translator, with Edna St. Vincent Millay, of Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1961
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226150771
• ISBN 13: 9780226150772
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208