Journal Issue
This number makes Unknown Spanish Writer the center of its experiment, carrying 8 poems—from The Dead Lover to All Is Night’s Darkness—into Grover Jacoby’s fluctuant syllabic measure. Translations of Gil Vicente, Charles d’Orléans, Heinrich Heine 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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- Foreword [Essay, p. 209]
- Cassandra’s Song — Gil Vicente [Poem (translation), p. 211]
- There’s a Rose’s New Life in the Garden — Gil Vicente [Poem (translation), p. 212]
- Cantiga — Gil Vicente [Poem (translation), p. 213]
- The Girl Is Really in Anger — Gil Vicente [Poem (translation), p. 214]
- From the Tree of Roses I Come — Gil Vicente [Poem (translation), p. 215]
- Villancete — Gil Vicente [Poem (translation), p. 216]
- Song — Garcilaso de la Vega [Poem (translation), p. 217]
- Song — Lope de Vega Carpio [Poem (translation), p. 218]
- Song from “The Rustic in His Corner” — Lope de Vega Carpio [Poem (translation), p. 219]
- Song from “The Silver Girl” — Lope de Vega Carpio [Poem (translation), p. 219]
- Song from “The Grand Duke of Muscovy” — Lope de Vega Carpio [Poem (translation), p. 220]
- The Dead Lover — Unknown Spanish Writer [Poem (translation), p. 221]
- Luna que Reluces — Unknown Spanish Writer [Poem (translation), p. 221]
- Song — Unknown Spanish Writer [Poem (translation), p. 222]
- I Would Never Become a Nun — Unknown Spanish Writer [Poem (translation), p. 223]
- The Heron Goes — Unknown Spanish Writer [Poem (translation), p. 223]
- Song — Unknown Spanish Writer [Poem (translation), p. 224]
- Song — Unknown Spanish Writer [Poem (translation), p. 224]
- All Is Night’s Darkness — Unknown Spanish Writer [Poem (translation), p. 225]
- From “Rimas” — Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer [Poem (translation), p. 226]
- From “Rimas” — Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer [Poem (translation), p. 226]
- From “Rimas” — Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer [Poem (translation), p. 227]
- From “Rimas” — Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer [Poem (translation), p. 227]
- Rondeau — Charles d’Orléans [Poem (translation), p. 228]
- Song — Charles d’Orléans [Poem (translation), p. 229]
- Rondeau — Christine de Pisan [Poem (translation), p. 230]
- From “Verschiedene”, Emma - 4 — Heinrich Heine [Poem (translation), p. 231]
- From “Lyrisches Intermezzo” - 51 — Heinrich Heine [Poem (translation), p. 231]
- From “The North Sea”—7—(Third Lyric) — Heinrich Heine [Poem (translation), p. 232]
- Helen — Heinrich Heine [Poem (translation), p. 232]
- The Runenstein — Heinrich Heine [Poem (translation), p. 233]
- Descend, Sun of Beauty — Friedrich Hölderlin [Poem (translation), p. 234]
- The Zeitgeist — Friedrich Hölderlin [Poem (translation), p. 235]
- Man — Friedrich Hölderlin [Poem (translation), p. 236]
- Vanini — Friedrich Hölderlin [Poem (translation), p. 238]
- Rondeau — Christine de Pisan [Poem (translation), p. 240]
- Rondeau — Charles d’Orléans [Poem (translation), p. 241]
- Ballade — Charles d’Orléans [Poem (translation), p. 242]
- Rondeau — Charles d’Orléans [Poem (translation), p. 243]
- The Enemy — Charles Baudelaire [Poem (translation), p. 244]
- Man and the Sea — Charles Baudelaire [Poem (translation), p. 245]
- A Taste for the Void — Charles Baudelaire [Poem (translation), p. 246]
- Octave — Michelangelo Buonarroti [Poem (translation), p. 247]
- Madrigal — Francesco Petrarca [Poem (translation), p. 248]
- Madrigal — Francesco Petrarca [Poem (translation), p. 249]
- Sonnet — Francesco Petrarca [Poem (translation), p. 250]
- Sonnet — Francesco Petrarca [Poem (translation), p. 251]
- From “En las Orillas del Sar” — Rosalía Castro [Poem (translation), p. 252]
- From “En las Orillas del Sar” — Rosalía Castro [Poem (translation), p. 253]
- Sonnet — Pedro Calderón de la Barca [Poem (translation), p. 254]
- Varied Stirrings of His Heart Afloat on the Waves of Lisi’s Hair — Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas [Poem (translation), p. 255]
- On the Briefness and Fugitive Nature of Life — Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas [Poem (translation), p. 256]
- Tidings of Death — Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas [Poem (translation), p. 257]
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Copyright © 1969 by Grover Jacoby
Copyright Status Unresolved
The issue bears a 1969 copyright notice; rights in individual contributions and the compilation have not been fully resolved.
*Comment in Motion*, no. 7, April 1969. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.