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Sections 2, 3 & 4 are in MW Ready for PL! Hi Larry Some years ago I attended a seminar on the difficulty of translating Pushkin into English. From what I remember of that and the translator's comment that he has "translated Pushkin literally word for word, line for line" I think it is ...

Thanks Tricia
I have uploaded the first 3 sections to get this started

GregGiordano wrote: ↑Yesterday, 7:17 pm Here are the lines for Comus ready for Spot PL:
https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/comus_comus_milton.mp3

Comus is now PL OK!
Thanks Greg, I can now start assembling a partial draft edit.

johng wrote: ↑Yesterday, 10:34 am I agree....but the ONE advantage, I think, is overshadowed by the "trauma" of having to listen to all the intro /extra material!
grumble, grumble!!!!

If you use the short poetry disclaimer rather the one you specify it can be less tedious.

Here are the lines of Comus from "Comus" - https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/comus_comus_milton.mp3 PL Notes for Comus in Comus: Hi Greg Just a few minor corrections: at 2.11 (Line125) text is Come, let us our rites begin - but us is missing at 3.06 (line 137) text is Of all thy dues be...

I have done a few collections like this and simply---rather arbitrarily---decide on a number of poems for each section and then charge on. To listen to individual, short poems is tedious for me, especially as we use the intro each time (even though it can be the short form.) The one advantage of ha...

Acanthio act 1

https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/mercator_acanthio_1.mp3

silverquill wrote: ↑April 16th, 2024, 7:28 am Love Pushkin! Be glad to join you as DPL, Alan.

Thanks Larry, glad to have you aboard

Thanks to Adrian and Congratulations to Inkell

Great to have the first completed Act.

Thanks Jenn and Adrian

I intend to read 21 poems from this collection. The actual selection may vary as the project progresses.

I will need the good offices of a DPL and MC

The translator is not in the database.

Selection from Poems by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837), translated by Ivan Panin (1855 - 1942) tba (Summary by Alan Mapstone) Source text (please read only from this text!): http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54991 Target completion date: 2024-07-01 Prooflistening level: Special - Standar...

jennlea wrote: ↑April 15th, 2024, 3:39 pm Thank you for your careful PLing, Adrian. Here are the corrections:
https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/doncarlos_princesseboli_2.mp3
27:30
The last correction ended up being at 20:48 on my file.

Thanks Jenn
This is Ready for Spot PL!

Alan, now we know both the word count and have an idea of the cast's speed of talking I'm pretty certain acts 2 and 4 (both longer word count than act 1) will need to be split into two parts while acts 3 and 5 (both shorter word count than act 1) will probably be okay so when you do the stage direc...

Inkell wrote: ↑April 15th, 2024, 10:49 am Thank you for the well wishes, here is our first act!
Act 1: https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/doncarlos_1_schiller_128kb.mp3 (1 hour, 8 mins, 31 secs)
I believe it just about scrapes in under the limit

Fantastic
Act 1 is Ready for PL!