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Mourning across Centuries and Languages: A Poem’s Six-Hundred-Year Journey, Jahan Ramazani

Mourning across Centuries and Languages: A Poem’s Six-Hundred-Year Journey Jahan Ramazani Grief over the loss of a child is well known to be especially difficult and intractable. Across cultures, people have long turned to poetry in times of mourning. Years after the loss of his five-year old son, Ralph Waldo Emerson repeatedly translated an elegy written by a classical Persian, Muslim poet, Sa‘di, to mourn the loss of his child, as mediated by a nineteenth-century German translation of a sixteenth-century Ottoman Turkish commentary. What can we learn from the extraordinary journey this elegy makes across epochs, cultures, and languages about mourning, translation, and poetry’s capacity to help us grapple with grief through the words of another? Jahan Ramazani is University Professor and Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia. His books include Poetry in a Global Age (2020), A Transnational Poetics (2009), winner of the Harry Levin Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association, and Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney (1994). He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. 00:00 Introductions 12:35 Jahan Ramazani 17:17 Mourning, Translation, Poetry 30:20 Migrations of the Persian Child Loss Elegy: Emerson's Self-revisions 37:22 Specificities of Sa'adi's Elegy 40:55 Germanizing Sa'adi 46:44 The Missing Ottoman Link 52:14 Persian Child Loss Elegies: Hafez and Ferdowsi 1:01:35 Conclusion The Simpson Center for the Humanities is a proud sponsor of this event. Captioning was provided through 3Play Media services. Subscribe to the Simpson Center YouTube Channel: ✔ https://www.youtube.com/c/simpsoncent... Follow the Simpson Center Social Media: ✔   / simpson.cen.  . ✔   / simpsoncenter​   More on the Simpson Center for the Humanities: ✔ https://simpsoncenter.org/