The Oxford book of verse in English translation
By: chosen and edited by Charles Tomlinson.
Contributors: Tomlinson, Charles, 1927-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 608
Subjects: Poetry -- Translations into English
Description: Our vast and often neglected literature of poetic translation is represented in this anthology by some 600 poems or extracts. The choice encompasses many languages, including the Hebrew of the Bible, the Greek of Homer, the Latin of Virgil and Ovid, Persian, French, German, Russian, Italian, Anglo-Saxon, Icelandic, Irish, and the American Indian, all rendered into English.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.