Ben Whitworth writes for the UK magazine Catholic Life:
"...The two most effective translations that I have come across are both, by coincidence, American. A writer known only as G.J.G. published a version in the U.S. Democratic Review of 1842, which begins:
Broken-hearted, lo! and tearful,
Bowed beside that Cross so fearful,
Stands the Mother by the Son!
A more recent translation, given in full here, is by the Washington-based hymn-writer Kathleen Pluth. It captures the richness of this great medieval hymn in the language of the twenty-first century."
"...The two most effective translations that I have come across are both, by coincidence, American. A writer known only as G.J.G. published a version in the U.S. Democratic Review of 1842, which begins:
Broken-hearted, lo! and tearful,
Bowed beside that Cross so fearful,
Stands the Mother by the Son!
A more recent translation, given in full here, is by the Washington-based hymn-writer Kathleen Pluth. It captures the richness of this great medieval hymn in the language of the twenty-first century."
Ben is writing his dissertation on Latin hymn translations, so he has looked carefully at a lot of translations of the Stabat Mater. I'm honored that he thinks well of mine.
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