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001 2011934713
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050 00 $aPN1059.T7$bR49 2011
100 1 $aReynolds, Matthew,$d1969-
245 14 $aThe poetry of translation :$bfrom Chaucer & Petrarch to Homer & Logue /$cMatthew Reynolds.
260 $aOxford :$bOxford Univ Prress,$c2011.
300 $ax, 374 p. ;$c23 cm.
505 0 $aScope 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---d" -- 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).
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 8 $aThis 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.
650 0 $aPoetry$xTranslations$xHistory and criticism.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1301/2011934713-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1301/2011934713-d.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1301/2011934713-t.html