Comment in Motion, No. 6 (October 1968) – Extremes and Moderations

Journal Issue

This number makes Friedrich Hölderlin the center of its experiment, carrying 7 poems—from To our Great Poets to Return to the Homeland—into Grover Jacoby’s fluctuant syllabic measure. Translations of Charles Baudelaire, Heinrich Heine, Michelangelo Buonarroti broaden the comparison, so the issue reads as a set of practical tests rather than a single showcase. Reactions to Fluctuant Syllabic Verse and 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: 6
Issue date: October 1968
Editor: Grover Jacoby
Publisher: Variegation Publishing Company
Place of publication: Los Angeles, California
Language: English
Pagination: Original scan: 26 PDF pages. Reader’s edition: 48 pages.
Record ID: ttj-comment-in-motion-no-06-october-1968

Full contents

Reactions to Fluctuant Syllabic Verse and Comment in Motion [Essay]
Foreword [Essay, p. 165]
The First Poem Appearing in the “Vita Nuova” — Dante Alighieri [Poem (translation), p. 167]
From the Last Pages of the “Vita Nuova” — Dante Alighieri [Poem (translation), p. 168]
Madrigal — Francesco Petrarca [Poem (translation), p. 169]
Sonnet — Francesco Petrarca [Poem (translation), p. 170]
Sonnet — Michelangelo Buonarroti [Poem (translation), p. 171]
In Me la Morte — Michelangelo Buonarroti [Poem (translation), p. 172]
Night — Michelangelo Buonarroti [Poem (translation), p. 172]
Sonnet — Gaspara Stampa [Poem (translation), p. 173]
Sonnet — Gaspara Stampa [Poem (translation), p. 174]
From “Sur la Morte de Marie” — Pierre de Ronsard [Poem (translation), p. 175]
From “The First Book of Sonnets for Hèléne” — Pierre de Ronsard [Poem (translation), p. 176]
Molière’s Epitaph — Jean de La Fontaine [Poem (translation), p. 177]
Epitaph for an Idle Person — Jean de La Fontaine [Poem (translation), p. 177]
El Desdichado — Gérard de Nerval [Poem (translation), p. 178]
Vers Dorés — Gérard de Nerval [Poem (translation), p. 179]
Evening Harmony — Charles Baudelaire [Poem (translation), p. 180]
Correspondences — Charles Baudelaire [Essay, p. 181]
Contemplation — Charles Baudelaire [Poem (translation), p. 182]
The Albatross — Charles Baudelaire [Poem (translation), p. 183]
Lola de Valence — Charles Baudelaire [Poem (translation), p. 183]
To Cordoba — Luis de Góngora [Poem (translation), p. 184]
From “En las Orillas del Sar” — Rosalía Castro [Poem (translation), p. 186]
From “En las Orillas del Sar” — Rosalía Castro [Poem (translation), p. 187]
Wisdom — Paul Verlaine [Poem (translation), p. 188]
Parsifal — Paul Verlaine [Poem (translation), p. 189]
Prometheus — J. W. von Goethe [Poem (translation), p. 190]
To our Great Poets — Friedrich Hölderlin [Poem (translation), p. 192]
The Gods — Friedrich Hölderlin [Poem (translation), p. 193]
Persuasion — Friedrich Hölderlin [Poem (translation), p. 193]
To the Germans — Friedrich Hölderlin [Poem (translation), p. 194]
Ode — Friedrich Hölderlin [Poem (translation), p. 195]
Those Poets Affecting Faith — Friedrich Hölderlin [Poem (translation), p. 196]
Return to the Homeland — Friedrich Hölderlin [Poem (translation), p. 197]
From “Verschiedene” Seraphine — Heinrich Heine [Poem (translation), p. 198]
From “Lyrisches Intermezzo” — Heinrich Heine [Poem (translation), p. 199]
From “Lyrisches Intermezzo” — Heinrich Heine [Poem (translation), p. 200]
From “Verschiedene” Seraphine — Heinrich Heine [Poem (translation), p. 201]

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The issue bears a 1968 copyright notice; rights in individual contributions and the compilation have not been fully resolved.

*Comment in Motion*, no. 6, October 1968. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.