03294cam a22003375a 4500 22380 22352 16879329 EG-ScBUE 20200203130748.0 110719s2011 enk f b 001 0 eng d 9780199605712 (hbk.) (OCoLC)ocn701811411 BTCTA eng rda BTCTA EG-ScBUE 809.1 REY 22 Reynolds, Matthew, 1969- author. 40338 The poetry of translation : from Chaucer & Petrarch to Homer & Logue / Matthew Reynolds. Poetry of translation : from Chaucer and Petrarch to Homer and Logue Oxford : Oxford Univ Prress, 2011 x, 374 pages ; 23 cm rdacontent text txt rdamedia unmediated n rdacarrier volume nc Includes bibliographical references and index. Pt.1, Translation and metaphor: 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 -- Pt.2, Translation as 'interpretation', as 'Paraphrase', and as 'Opening': 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" -- Pt.3, Translation as 'Friendship' as 'Desire', and as 'Passion': 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" -- Pt.4, Translation and the landscape of the past: 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 -- Pt.5, Translation as 'loss', as 'death', as 'Resurrection', and as 'Metamorphosis': 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). 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. Poetry Translations History and criticism. BUEsh 41170 BUEsh HHUUEENN September2016 Reading book Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1301/2011934713-t.html ddc 22 809.1 REY BB 0 0 ddc 0 0 Baccah MAIN MAIN 2ND 2016-09-25 Purchase 726.00 26103 0 809.1 REY 000033431 2025-07-15 00:00:00 908.00 2016-09-25 BB