Comment in Motion, No. 4 (November 1967) – Extremes and Moderations

Journal Issue

This number makes Friedrich Hölderlin the center of its experiment, carrying 4 poems—from Diotima to Des Morgens—into Grover Jacoby’s fluctuant syllabic measure. Translations of Rosalía Castro, Alphonse de Lamartine, Giacomo Leopardi broaden the comparison, so the issue reads as a set of practical tests rather than a single showcase. Foreword 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: 4
Issue date: November 1967
Editor: Grover Jacoby
Publisher: Variegation Publishing Company
Place of publication: Los Angeles, California
Language: English
Pagination: Original scan: 15 PDF pages. Reader’s edition: 23 pages.
Record ID: ttj-comment-in-motion-no-04-november-1967

Full contents

Foreword [Essay, p. 101]
After the Festivities or The Evening of the Day of the Fiesta — Giacomo Leopardi [Poem (translation), p. 104]
The Lake — Alphonse de Lamartine [Poem (translation), p. 106]
Sonnet III — Louise Labé [Poem (translation), p. 109]
The Bells — Rosalía Castro [Poem (translation), p. 111]
From “En las Orillas del Sar” — 70 — Rosalía Castro [Poem (translation), p. 111]
From “En las Orillas del Sar” — 60 — Rosalía Castro [Poem (translation), p. 112]
Diotima — Friedrich Hölderlin [Poem (translation), p. 113]
Man’s Praise — Friedrich Hölderlin [Poem (translation), p. 113]
Empedocles — Friedrich Hölderlin [Poem (translation), p. 114]
Des Morgens — Friedrich Hölderlin [Poem (translation), p. 115]

Rights and citation

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

*Comment in Motion*, no. 4, November 1967. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.