Blok's "Dvenadtsat'"

[James West]

Does a Scots version count?  In the case of Edwin Muir's, I hope so -- his
slender volume of translations from Mayakovsky is wonderful, as long as
you're prepared to do a little language-learning!  But if you can figure out
which Mayakovsky poem is entitled "A Richt Respeck fer Cuddies", you can
consider yourself at least a couple of rungs up the ladder, and treat
yourself to the rest...

James West


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Does a (n incomplete) Scots version count?

I have one (The Twal), oddly enough, right in front of me, the first line of
which (Mirk the Nicht) gave the first stirrings of an idea for an article.

I think it's by Edwin Muir.

Robert Orr


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> David Powelstock
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