Poem by Arthur Rimbaud from his poetry collection “Illuminations”, – Bottom – presented in its original version in French and in translation into English, Italian and Spanish, curated by Enzo Martinelli. Continue reading Bottom, de Arthur Rimbaud 💡✒️🇫🇷
La presentación de trabajos de traducción de poesía y cuentos al español que apareció en este blog a lo largo de los años. Continue reading Literatura en traducción 📃➡️🇪🇸
Oscar Wilde’s prose poem The Disciple, from his 1894 collection Poems in Prose, is one of his most compact and philosophically piercing works. In a mere handful of lines, Wilde inverts the relationship between beauty and the beholder: when the nymphs mourn Narcissus by the pool, they reveal that they wept not for him, but for themselves — for the reflection of their own beauty they once glimpsed in his eyes. Wilde distills here the paradox of admiration: the admirer, too, is seeking a mirror.
This post presents the original English text alongside an Italian translation (Il Discepolo) and a Spanish translation (El Discípulo), offering readers a trilingual encounter with Wilde’s ironic lyricism. Whether you come to Wilde through his plays, his fairy tales, or his aphorisms, these prose poems reveal a writer at his most elliptical and most profound. Continue reading The Disciple, by Oscar Wilde 🌿🖋📖
Oscar Wilde – Poems in prose – 1894 – translated from English 🏴 into Spanish 🇪🇸 and Italian 🇮🇹 by Enzo Martinelli © 2025 Enzo Martinelli It was night-time and He was alone.And He saw afar-off the walls of a round city and went towards the city.And when He came near He heard within the city the tread of the feet of joy, and the … Continue reading The Doer of Good, by Oscar Wilde 🌿🖋📖
Nacido en Lisboa el 13 de junio de 1888 y educado en Durban, Sudáfrica, Fernando Pessoa es una de las personalidades literarias más intrigantes del siglo pasado y uno de los mejores poetas de la lengua portuguesa. Este año se cumple el 85 aniversario de su muerte en Lisboa en 1935. Como escritor prolífico, creó más de setenta personajes diferentes que tenían sus propias personalidades … Continue reading Fernando Pessoa 🇵🇹✒️🇪🇸
Oscar Wilde, celebrated for his wit and aesthetic sensibility, is best known for The Picture of Dorian Gray and his brilliant plays, yet his Poems in Prose reveal a deeper, more contemplative facet of his artistry. Written in the 1890s, these short, symbolist-inflected parables blend biblical cadence with allegorical sharpness, exploring themes of beauty, morality, compassion, and judgment. Though less known than his epigrams or … Continue reading The Artist, by Oscar Wilde 🌿🖋📖
In paths untrodden – Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass – Calamus – 1855 – translated from English into Spanish and Italian by Enzo Martinelli © 2021 – Enzo Martinelli In paths untrodden,In the growth by margins of pond-waters,Escaped from the life that exhibits itself,From all the standards hitherto publish’d, from the pleasures, profits, conformities,Which too long I was offering to feed my soul,Clear to … Continue reading In Paths Untrodden, by Whitman 🌿🖋📖
Con motivo del 123° aniversario del nacimiento de Federico García Lorca, nacido el 5 de junio de 1898 El poeta más importante del grupo Generación del 27 y uno de los poetas españoles más famosos e influyentes, García Lorca también es célebre por su compromiso político en el período de agitación que condujo a la guerra civil en España. Terminó siendo una de las víctimas … Continue reading Federico García Lorca ✒️🇪🇸📃
