Comment in Motion, No. 1 (1967) – Extremes and Moderations

Journal Issue

This number makes Heinrich Heine the center of its experiment, carrying 10 poems—from From “Neuer Fruhling” to The Lorelei—into Grover Jacoby’s fluctuant syllabic measure. Translations of Friedrich Hölderlin, Rosalía Castro, Giacomo Leopardi broaden the comparison, so the issue reads as a set of practical tests rather than a single showcase. Comment in Motion supplies the turning point, explaining what the verse itself is trying to preserve: movement, stress, and rhetorical force across languages. The result is both a small anthology and a compact demonstration of translation as an argument about poetic time.

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Publication details

Journal: Comment in Motion
Volume: Not recorded
Issue number: 1
Issue date: 1967
Editor: Grover Jacoby
Publisher: Variegation Publishing Company
Place of publication: Los Angeles, California
Language: English
Pagination: Original scan: 24 PDF pages. Reader’s edition: 47 pages.
Record ID: ttj-comment-in-motion-no-01-1967

Full contents

Comment in Motion — Grover Jacoby [Essay]
Half Through Life — Friedrich Hölderlin [Poem (translation), p. 7]
Never More — Jean Moréas [Poem (translation), p. 8]
Wisdom — Paul Verlaine [Poem (translation), p. 9]
From “Rimas” — Gustavo Bécquer [Poem (translation), p. 10]
From “Rimas” — Gustavo Bécquer [Poem (translation), p. 11]
From “Neuer Fruhling” — Heinrich Heine [Poem (translation), p. 12]
Der Asra — Heinrich Heine [Poem (translation), p. 13]
From “Neuer Fruhling” — Heinrich Heine [Poem (translation), p. 14]
With Your Blue Eyes — Heinrich Heine [Poem (translation), p. 15]
Im Wunderschonen Monat Mai — Heinrich Heine [Poem (translation), p. 15]
Childe Harold — Heinrich Heine [Poem (translation), p. 16]
From “The North Sea” — Heinrich Heine [Poem (translation), p. 17]
Where? — Heinrich Heine [Poem (translation), p. 18]
Luck Is Just a Common Slattern — Heinrich Heine [Poem (translation), p. 19]
Complaint Concerned with Certain Annoyances — Jules Laforgue [Poem (translation), p. 20]
To Her Portrait — Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz [Poem (translation), p. 21]
From “En Las Orillas Del Sar” — Rosalía Castro [Poem (translation), p. 22]
From “En Las Orillas Del Sar” — Rosalía Castro [Poem (translation), p. 23]
From “En Las Orillas Del Sar” — Rosalía Castro [Poem (translation), p. 24]
From “En Las Orillas Del Sar” — Rosalía Castro [Poem (translation), p. 25]
From “En Las Orillas Del Sar” — Rosalía Castro [Poem (translation), p. 26]
The Homeland — Friedrich Hölderlin [Poem (translation), p. 27]
Hyperion’s Song of Fate — Friedrich Hölderlin [Poem (translation), p. 28]
Ode — Friedrich Hölderlin [Poem (translation), p. 29]
Her Healing — Friedrich Hölderlin [Poem (translation), p. 30]
Sunset — Friedrich Hölderlin [Poem (translation), p. 31]
Socrates and Alcibiades — Friedrich Hölderlin [Poem (translation), p. 32]
The Run of Life — Friedrich Hölderlin [Poem (translation), p. 33]
To Himself — Giacomo Leopardi [Poem (translation), p. 34]
L’infinito — Giacomo Leopardi [Poem (translation), p. 35]
Found — J. W. von Goethe [Poem (translation), p. 36]
The Lorelei — Heinrich Heine [Poem (translation), p. 37]
Clytie — André Chénier [Poem (translation), p. 38]
In the Woods — Gérard de Nerval [Poem (translation), p. 39]
Before and Now — Friedrich Hölderlin [Poem (translation), p. 40]

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The issue bears a 1967 copyright notice; rights in individual contributions and the compilation have not been fully resolved.

*Comment in Motion*, no. 1, 1967. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.