Gillespie, Stuart. English translation and classical reception : towards a new literary history

Folger bibliographic ID: 245978
Folger call number: PR133 .G55 2011
Folger holdings ID: 312786

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

Making the classics belong: a historical introduction -- Creative translation -- English Renaissance poets and the translating tradition -- Two-way reception: Shakespeare's influence on Plutarch -- Transformative translation: Dryden's Horatian ode -- Statius and the aesthetics of eighteenth-century poetry -- Classical translation and the formation of the English literary canon -- Evidence for an alternative history: manuscript translations of the long eighteenth century -- Receiving Wordsworth, receiving Juvenal: Wordsworth's suppressed eighth satire -- The persistence of translations: Lucretius in the nineteenth century -- Oddity and struggling dumbness: Ted Hughes's Homer

Extended title: English translation and classical reception : towards a new literary history / Stuart Gillespie

Classical literature English literature Translating and interpreting Receptie Klassieke talen Bellettrie Engels Vertalingen

author: Gillespie, Stuart, 1958-