Table of Contents

1: Preface and Acknowledgements
2: General Introduction
3: Babel
Part One: Section 1
4: Introduction
5: Classical Latin and Early Christian Latin Translation
6: Jonathan Wilcox: Old English Translation
7: John of Trevisa
8: William Caxton
Part One: Section 2
9: Introduction
10: Martin Luther
11: William Tyndale
12: Estienne Dolet
13: Joachim du Bellay
14: Late Tudor and Early Jacobean Translation
15: Renaissance Latin Translation in England
16: The Catholic Bible in England
17: The Authorized (King James) Version of the Bible
18: Sir John Denham
19: Abraham Cowley
20: Jane Stevenson: Women Translators from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century
21: David Hopkins: John Dryden
22: Anne Dacier
23: Alexander Pope
24: Samuel Johnson
25: William Cowper
26: Alexander Fraser Tytler
Part One: Section 3
27: Introduction
28: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
29: Friedrich Schleiermacher
30: Victorian Translation and Criticism
31: Six Nineteenth-Century Translators
32: James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
Part Two: Section 1
33: Introduction
34: Ronnie Apter: Ezra Pound
35: Constance Garnett
36: Walter Benjamin
37: Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig
38: Jorge Luis Borges
39: Roman Jakobson
40: Jiri Levý
41: Eugene A. Nida
41: Robert Lowell
43: Stanley Burnshaw
44: Laura Bohannan
45: Jenefer Coates: Vladimir Nabokov
Part Two: Section 2
46: Introduction
47: George Steiner
48: James S. Holmes
49: Itamar Evan-Zohar
50: André Lefevere
51: Mary Snell-Hornby
52: Ethnopoetics: Translation of the Oral and of Oral Performance
53: Louis and Celia Zukofsky
54: Translation of Verse Form
55: Vinay Dharwadker: A.K. Ramanujan
56: Gayatri Spivak
57: Talal Asad
58: Eva Hoffman
59: Gregory Rabassa
60: Suzanne Jill Levine
61: Ted Hughes
62: Douglas Robinson
63: Lawrence Venuti
64: Susan Bassnett
65: Everett Fox
66: John Felstiner
67: W.S. Merwin
68: Edwin Morgan
69: Seamus Heaney
Daniel Weissbort: Postface

About the Author

Daniel Weissbort was educated at St. Paul's School, London and Cambridge University. With Ted Hughes he founded the journal Modern Poetry in Translation, now published by King's College London. In the early 1970s he went to America to direct the Translation Workshop and MFA Program in Translation at the University of Iowa. His anthologies of Russian and East European poetry are well known and he has also published many collections of his own poetry. He is
or has been on various boards, including the Poetry International Committee (UK), the American Literary Translators Association board, the Columbia Translation Center board, the Stephen Spender Memorial Trust,
and the British Centre for Literary Translation board. He is Professor (Emeritus) of English and Comparative Literature, University of Iowa, Research Fellow in the English Department, King's College London, and Honorary Professor in the Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Warwick. Astradur Eysteinsson was born in Akranes, Iceland, in 1957. He studied at the universities of Iceland, Warwick, and Cologne, before completing a PhD in Comparative Literature
at the University of Iowa. He has been Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature at the University of Iceland, and Visiting Professor in Translation Studies at the universities of Iowa and
Copenhagen. He has been a practising translator since 1981.

Reviews

A magnificently compendious volume...Translation - Theory and Practice is in many respects an essential volume: it is the fullest gathering we have of writing relating to literary translation into English, and it juxtaposes its material in thought-provoking ways. Matthew Reynolds, Translation and Literature a useful and wide-ranging anthology. Kenneth Haynes, The Review of English Studies Weissbort and Eysteinsson's collection is nothing less than magnificent - both in terms of its size and of its scope. Perspectives: Studies in Translatology, Volume 14:2 ...the volume offers considerable riches, factoring in a number of European writers, and with a surprising amount of material that is relevant to earlier periods. Medium Aevum