PHÈDRE
By
Jean Racine
Translated By Harold
Anthony Lloyd © 2016 Translator’s Note: To accommodate the different rhythm of English, I have generally rendered the French alexandrine couplets into iambic pentameter ones. To accommodate further the linguistic difference, I have freely used enjambment. I agree with Richard Wilbur that stacking up end-stopped lines in English can sound like piling lumber.
