Comment in Motion, No. 2 (April 1967) – Extremes and Moderations

Journal Issue

This number makes Louise Labé the center of its experiment, carrying 10 poems—from Sonnet II to Sonnet XXIII—into Grover Jacoby’s fluctuant syllabic measure. Translations of J. W. von Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Charles Baudelaire broaden the comparison, so the issue reads as a set of practical tests rather than a single showcase. Fluctuant Syllabic Verse 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: 2
Issue date: April 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: 44 pages.
Record ID: ttj-comment-in-motion-no-02-april-1967

Full contents

Fluctuant Syllabic Verse — Grover Jacoby [Essay]
From the “Vita Nuova” — Dante Alighieri [Poem (translation), p. 47]
From “The Antiquities of Rome” — Joachim du Bellay [Poem (translation), p. 48]
Sonnet II — Louise Labé [Poem (translation), p. 49]
Sonnet V — Louise Labé [Poem (translation), p. 50]
Sonnet VII — Louise Labé [Poem (translation), p. 51]
Sonnet IX — Louise Labé [Poem (translation), p. 52]
Sonnet XII — Louise Labé [Poem (translation), p. 53]
Sonnet XIII — Louise Labé [Poem (translation), p. 54]
Sonnet XVIII — Louise Labé [Poem (translation), p. 55]
Sonnet XIX — Louise Labé [Poem (translation), p. 56]
Sonnet XXI — Louise Labé [Poem (translation), p. 57]
Sonnet XXIII — Louise Labé [Poem (translation), p. 58]
Dedication of His Work to Delie — Maurice Scève [Poem (translation), p. 59]
From “Delie” — Maurice Scève [Poem (translation), p. 60]
June Nights — Victor Hugo [Poem (translation), p. 61]
The Albatross — Charles Baudelaire [Poem (translation), p. 62]
To a Passerby — Charles Baudelaire [Poem (translation), p. 63]
Pastel — Théophile Gautier [Poem (translation), p. 64]
From “Rimas” — Gustavo Bécquer [Poem (translation), p. 65]
Encore Un Livre — Jules Laforgue [Poem (translation), p. 67]
The Violet — J. W. von Goethe [Poem (translation), p. 68]
Heidenröslein — J. W. von Goethe [Poem (translation), p. 69]
The Song of the Spirits Over the Waters — J. W. von Goethe [Poem (translation), p. 70]
The Human Boundary Line — J. W. von Goethe [Poem (translation), p. 71]
Das Göttliche — J. W. von Goethe [Poem (translation), p. 72]
Mignon’s Song from “Wilhelm Meister” — J. W. von Goethe [Poem (translation), p. 74]
From “Die Heimkehr” — Heinrich Heine [Poem (translation), p. 75]
From “Verschiedene” — Heinrich Heine [Poem (translation), p. 76]
From “Die Heimkehr” — Heinrich Heine [Poem (translation), p. 77]
Buonaparte — Friedrich Hölderlin [Poem (translation), p. 78]
To the Fates — Friedrich Hölderlin [Poem (translation), p. 79]

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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. 2, April 1967. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.