The poetry of translation
Subtitle: from Chaucer & Petrarch to Homer & Logue
By: Matthew Reynolds
Publisher: Oxford Univ Prress
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780199605712
Subjects: History and criticism; Translations; Poetry
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographic references and index.
Table of contents: title: Scope of translation; title: Translating within and between languages; title: Translation and paraphrase; title: Translating the language of literature; title: Words for translation; title: Metaphors for translation; title: Roots of translatorly metaphors; title: Are translations interpretations? Gadamer, Lowell, and some contemporary poem-translations; title: Interpretation and "opening" : Dryden, Chapman, and early translations from the Bible; title: "Paraphrase" from Erasmus to "Venus T; title: -d"; title: Dryden, Behn, and what is "secretly in the poet"; title: Dryden's Aeneis : "a thousand secret beauties"; title: Dryden's Dido : "somewhat I find within"; title: Translating an author : Denham, Katherine Philips, Dryden, Cowper; title: Author as intimate : Roscommon, Philips, Pope, Thomas Francklin, Lucretius, Dryden, FitzGerald, Jean Starr Untermeyer; title: Erotic translation : Theocritus, Dryden, Ovid, Richard Duke, Tasso, Fairfax, Petrarch, Charlotte Smith, Sappho, Swinburne; title: Love again : Sappho, Addison, Ambrose Philips, Dryden, Petrarch, Chaucer, Wyatt, Tasso, Fairfax, Ariosto, Harington, Byron; title: Byron's adulterous fidelity; title: Pope's Iliad the "hurry of passion"; title: Pope's Iliad : a "comprehensive view"; title: Some perspectives after Pope : Keats, Tennyson, Browning, Pound, Michael Longley; title: Epic zoom : Christopher Logue's Homer (with Anne Carson's Stesichoros and Seamus Heaney's  Beowulf; title: Ezra Pound : 'my job was to bring a dead man to life; title: FitzGerald's Rubaiyat : "a thing must live"; title: Metamporhoses of Arthur Golding (which lead to some conclusions).