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This is a wide-ranging book which launches a new theory of poetry translation and pursues it through readings of poem-translations from across the history of English literature. It engages with the key debates in translation studies, and offers new interpretations of major works.
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Poetry of Translation: From Chaucer and Petrarch to Homer and Logue
2013, Oxford University Press
in English
0199687935 9780199687930
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The poetry of translation: from Chaucer & Petrarch to Homer & Logue
2011, Oxford Univ Prress
in English
0199605718 9780199605712
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Book Details
Table of Contents
Scope of translation
Translating within and between languages
Translation and paraphrase
Translating the language of literature
Words for translation
Metaphors for translation
Roots of translatorly metaphors
Are translations interpretations? Gadamer, Lowell, and some contemporary poem-translations
Interpretation and "opening" : Dryden, Chapman, and early translations from the Bible
"Paraphrase" from Erasmus to "Venus T
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Dryden, Behn, and what is "secretly in the poet"
Dryden's Aeneis : "a thousand secret beauties"
Dryden's Dido : "somewhat I find within"
Translating an author : Denham, Katherine Philips, Dryden, Cowper
Author as intimate : Roscommon, Philips, Pope, Thomas Francklin, Lucretius, Dryden, FitzGerald, Jean Starr Untermeyer
Erotic translation : Theocritus, Dryden, Ovid, Richard Duke, Tasso, Fairfax, Petrarch, Charlotte Smith, Sappho, Swinburne
Love again : Sappho, Addison, Ambrose Philips, Dryden, Petrarch, Chaucer, Wyatt, Tasso, Fairfax, Ariosto, Harington, Byron
Byron's adulterous fidelity
Pope's Iliad the "hurry of passion"
Pope's Iliad : a "comprehensive view"
Some perspectives after Pope : Keats, Tennyson, Browning, Pound, Michael Longley
Epic zoom : Christopher Logue's Homer (with Anne Carson's Stesichoros and Seamus Heaney's Beowulf
Ezra Pound : 'my job was to bring a dead man to life
FitzGerald's Rubaiyat : "a thing must live"
Metamporhoses of Arthur Golding (which lead to some conclusions).
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographic references and index.
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