Translation and the Poet's Life: The Ethics of Translating in English Culture, 1646-1726
- Author / Editor
- Davis, Paul.
Translation and the Poet's Life: The Ethics of Translating in English Culture, 1646-1726
- Published
- New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Physical Description
- xii, 324 pp.
- Description
- Davis surveys the aesthetics and politics of works by "Augustan poet-translators," including a description of William Cartwright's comments on Francis Kynaston's translation of TC into Latin and an analysis of the modernizations and adaptations of Chaucer in John Dryden's "Fables." The modernizations and adaptations exemplify Dryden's late-career turn to an "Ovidian understanding of translation as self-indulgent play."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
- Troilus and Criseyde