English Translation And Classical Reception - Towards A New Literary History

• The first book-length study of English translation as a topic in classical reception
• Draws on the author’s exhaustive knowledge of English literary translation from the early Renaissance to the present
• Argues for a remapping of English literary history which would take proper account of the currently neglected history of classical translation, from Chaucer to the present
• Offers a widely ranging chronological analysis of English translation from ancient literatures
• Previously little-known, unknown, and sometimes suppressed translated texts are recovered from manuscripts and explored in terms of their implications for English literary history and for the interpretation of classical literature
  
  
  

Acknowledgements.

Note on Texts.

1. Making the Classics Belong: A Historical Introduction.

2. Creative Translation.

3. English Renaissance Poets and the Translating Tradition.

4. Two-Way Reception: Shakespeare’s Influence on Plutarch.

5. Transformative Translation: Dryden’s Horatian Ode.

6. Statius and the Aesthetics of Eighteenth-Century Poetry.

7. Classical Translation and the Formation of the English Literary Canon.

8. Evidence for an Alternative History: Manuscript Translations of the Long Eighteenth Century.

9. Receiving Wordsworth, Receiving Juvenal: Wordsworth’s Suppressed Eighth Satire.

10. The Persistence of Translations: Lucretius in the Nineteenth Century.

11. ‘Oddity and struggling dumbness’: Ted Hughes’s Homer.

12. Afterword.

References.

Index of Ancient Authors and Passages.

General Index.