Topics discussed in this episode include:

-Order George David Clark's new book, Newly Not Eternal here!

-Order John Wall Barger's new book, The Elephant of Silence here! 

-On the necessity of verse translation, feat. Bob and Paul 

-Metaphrase and Paraphrase

-The Blumov Method of translation

-Jacques Barzun's An Essay On French Verse

-Romanticism in Realism's clothing

-The tyranny of Hugo

-Parnassianism and other ideologies of contraction

-Buy John Anson's lovely translation of Les Trophees here! 

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List of the most common metrical feet:
Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)
Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)
Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)
Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)
Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)
Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)
Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)
Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)