John Scotus Eriugena at Laon & Other Poems by Jacques Darras, trans. by Richard Sieburth WW Norton & Co Most famous are the sequence

Most famous are the sequence of fragments in which the fox recounts his revenge upon the eagle (widely regarded as code for Lycambes) who has betrayed their friendship by eating the vixen’s cubs

himself politically conflicted

narratives of incarnation and atonement

In these muscular and ambitious poems

John Scotus Eriugena at Laon & Other Poems by Jacques Darras, trans. by Richard Sieburth WW Norton & Co Most famous are the sequenceA long overdue volume of Jacques Darras, celebrated French poet of place and nature, and prolific translator and scholar of American and British poetry. "John Scotus Eriugena at Laon," the title poem of this volume, recounts the journey of a ninth century Irish monk to the cathedral city of Laon in the heart of Picardy to translate a recently discovered Byzantine manuscript into Latinthe first such transmission of ancient Greek thought northward into