A Drama of a Philosophy of Senses: Jüri Talvet’s Poetry
A Drama of a Philosophy of Senses: Jüri Talvet’s Poetry

Summary/Abstract: Jüri Talvet is an Estonian poet. It means, as it does for all poets with this definition, that he writes poetry in Estonian. He was born on the 17th of December in 1945 in the Southwestern Estonian seaside city of Pärnu. Since 1974, he has worked at the department of comparative literature of Tartu University, which is Estonia’s oldest and most prestigious university. A professor and head of the department since 1992, his activities have included lecturing, supervising and reviewing degree writings, and numerous other academic, and literary, duties. For decades, he has translated a wide range of classic literary works, both verse and prose, poems, fiction and plays, from Western languages, especially Spanish and English, and also such notable minority languages of the Iberian peninsula as Galician and Catalan. Always devoted to outstanding artistic qualities, he has chosen the kind of kernel texts of the particular cultures that would best widen the outlook of his native readers, and with his methods of versification, and syntactic, lexical and stylistic choices, he has always aimed at his translations becoming landmarks of lasting value.

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