Miguel Alejo

Josh Bazuin
Traducción de Miguel Alejo
Hasta los inicios del siglo XIX, los artistas de todos los géneros estaban gobernados por el sistema de mecenazgo, que consistía en que un benefactor pagaba los gastos del artista, y el artista a su vez componía, escribía o pintaba obras para su benefactor. A comienzos del Romanticismo, en la última [...]

Not Waving But Drowning
Stevie Smith
Nobody heard him, the dead man,
But still he lay moaning:
I was much further out than you thought
And not waving but drowning.
Poor chap, he always loved larking
And now he’s dead
It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way,
They said.
Oh, no no no, it was too cold always
(Still the dead [...]

Home is so sad
Philip Larkin
Home is so sad. It stays as it was left,
Shaped to the comfort of the last to go
As if to win them back. Instead, bereft
Of anyone to please, it withers so,
Having no heart to put aside the theft.
And turn again to what it started as,
A joyous shot at how things [...]

Peace
Henry Vaughan, poeta británico.
My soul, there is a country
Far beyond the stars,
Where stands a wingèd sentry
All skilful in the wars.
There above noise and [...]

What is he?
D. H. Lawrence, poeta inglés.
What is he?
-A man, of course.
Yes, but what does he do?
-He lives, and is a man.
Oh quite! But he must work. He must have a job of some sort.
-Why?
Because obviously he’s not one of the leisured classes.
-I don’t know. He has lots of leisure. And he makes quite beautiful [...]

Gifts
James Thomson, poeta británico.
Give a man a horse he can ride
Give a man a boat he can sail
And his rank and wealth, his strength and health,
On sea nor shore shall fail.
Give a man a pipe he can smoke,
Give a man a book he can ride;
and his home is bright with a calm delight,
Though the room [...]