The Poetry of Translation: From Chaucer & Petrarch to Homer & Logue

by Matthew Reynolds

Book Overview

Poetry is supposed to be untranslatable. But many poems in English are also translations: Pope's Iliad, Pound's Cathay, and Dryden's Aeneis are only the most obvious examples. The Poetry of Translation explodes this paradox, launching a new theoretical approach to translation, and developing it through readings of English poem-translations, both major and neglected, from Chaucer and Petrarch to Homer and Logue.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199687935
• ISBN13: 9780199687930
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 384 Pages