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The poetry of translation : from Chaucer & Petrarch to Homer & Logue / Matthew Reynolds.
LIBRA PN1059.T7 R4 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reynolds, Matthew, 1969-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry--Translations--History and criticism.
- Poetry.
- Poetry--Translations.
- Physical Description:
- x, 374 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford Univ Prress, 2011.
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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
- -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).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographic references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199605712
- 0199605718
- OCLC:
- 701811411
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