The Poetry of Translation: From Chaucer & Petrarch to Homer & Logue by Matthew Reynolds

The Poetry of Translation: From Chaucer & Petrarch to Homer & Logue

Matthew Reynolds

374 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

adventurous mysterious tense slow-paced
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Poetry is supposed to be untranslatable. But many poems in English are also translations: Pope's Iliad, Pound's Cathay, and Dryden's Aeneis are only the most obvious examples. The Poetry of Translation explodes this paradox, launching a new theore...

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