Below is a translation by James Owens of the poem ‘Ballade des äußeren Lebens’ by the Austrian poet, novelist and essayist Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929). Stefan Zweig wrote […]

        The Death of Dido   —Aeneid IV, 692-705   She searched the sky for light, and moaned to find it. Then mighty Juno, for pity on long […]