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

Zusatztext a very well-balanced mingle of commentary and ample illustrative quotation, always astutely analysed, from all the poets discussed Klappentext Paul Davis explores the personal and cultural significances of translating as a distinctive mode of imaginative conduct for the five principal poet-translators of what was the golden age of the art in England: John Denham, Henry Vaughan, Abraham Cowley, John Dryden, and Alexander Pope. Zusammenfassung Paul Davis explores the personal and cultural significances of translating as a distinctive mode of imaginative conduct for the five principal poet-translators of what was the golden age of the art in England: John Denham, Henry Vaughan, Abraham Cowley, John Dryden, and Alexander Pope.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Davis
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2008
• EAN: 9780199297832
• ISBN: 978-0-19-929783-2
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Biography / Autobiography, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets