The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English: Volume 3
Subtitle: 1660-1790 (Ohlte)
Contributors: Stuart Gillespie (Editor); David Hopkins (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: November 4, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 584
ISBN-13: 9780199246229
First sentence: Today we tend to see translation as a secondary, subordinate activity, less creative than original composition, less an art than a craft, and we tend to suppose the purpose of a translation is to provide a guide to its original.