Gillespie, Stuart 1958- creator Wiley InterScience (Online service) text bibliography Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. enk Chichester, West Sussex Malden, MA Wiley-Blackwell 2011 monographic eng

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1 online resource (ix, 208 pages). English Translation and Classical Reception is the first genuine cross-disciplinary study bringing English literary history to bear on questions about the reception of classical literary texts, and vice versa. The text draws on the author's exhaustive knowledge of the subject from the early Renaissance to the present. 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 presentArgues for a remapping of English literary history which would take proper acco. Front Matter -- 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 -- ₁Oddity and struggling dumbness₂: Ted Hughes's Homer -- Afterword -- References -- Index of Ancient Authors and Passages -- General Index. 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. Stuart Gillespie. Includes bibliographical references and index. e-uk--- Classical literature Translations into English History and criticism Classical literature Appreciation Great Britain History English literature Classical influences Translating and interpreting Great Britain History Classical literature Appreciation Great Britain History Classical literature Translations into English History and criticism English literature Classical influences Translating and interpreting Great Britain History LITERARY CRITICISM European English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Classical literature Appreciation Classical literature Translations into English English literature Classical influences Translating and interpreting Great Britain PR133 .G55 2011 820.9/142 9781444396485 144439648X 9781444396508 1444396501 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781444396508 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781444396508 DG1 110609 20171119081745.0 ocn729724681 eng