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  1. Fun With Language: Literature in Translation

    Earlier this week I finished Maria Dahvana Headley's translation of Beowulf. It's a story I know well, having read various translations of the poem over the last couple decades. I loved her translation. There's a mix of modern language and archaic formalities. It's a translation you can feel the fun she had in writing it. In undergrad, I majored in Linguistics. Between high school and college, I studied five years of French, four years of Russian, and two years of Japanese. I'm absolute […]

    alexanderkeane.com/2026/04/14/

  2. ✒️ Some think I married the prince because of his name. To them I say: listen to the way he talks about me when I'm not in the room, and tell me that you wouldn't love him as much as I do!

    “She shines like a star
    in the night‘s darkest hour, in a pure, clear sky,
    and to me she always appears
    in the radiant,
    radiant nimbus of an angel!”

    (Enjoy Bass Johannes Seokhoon Moon’s singing Prince Gremin’s aria!)

    #TanyaBlog #opera #onegin #OperaQuote #Tchaikovsky #Gremin #music
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