Translation and the Poet's Life: The Ethics of Translating in English Culture, 1646-1726

by Paul Davis

Between the Civil War and the early decades of the eighteenth century, English poets of the first rank devoted more of their time and creative energies to translating than they had ever done before or have ever done since. Paul Davis's Translation and the Poet's Life is the first study to
range across the entirety of this golden age of poetic translation in England, taking as its organizing principle and object of inquiry the significances of translating...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199297835
• ISBN13: 9780199297832
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.6"