Are you curious about the world of poetry? In this conversation, Sascha Ebeling introduced the rich tapestry of global poetry, spanning from classical eras to contemporary times. We explored the technical aspects and historical context of some of the most memorable poems and addressed the fascinating issues surrounding literary translation, analyzing original texts alongside their English versions.
This conversation is a preview Ebeling’s course ‘Understanding World Poetry.’
Lecturer bio:
Professor Sascha Ebeling studies both modern and premodern South Asian and Southeast Asian literary traditions and cultural history, and some of the less commonly studied European literatures. He is particularly interested in entangled histories of literary practices in Europe and Asia during the nineteenth and early twentieth century, including the emergence of the novel in Asia and the global history of modernist poetry.
