Translation/History/Culture A Sourcebook Book

	General editor's preface
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
	from the Introduction to her translation of the Iliad	10
1	The role of ideology in the shaping of a translation	14
	from the "Letter to the Pisones," also known as the Ars Poetica	15
	from "On the Christian Doctrine"; from the "Letter to Saint Jerome"	15
	from the "Circular Letter on Translation"	16
	from the "History of Romantic Literature"	17
	from the Writings	17
	from the preface to the New Shakespeare Translation	18
2	The power of patronage	19
	from the "Dialogue between a Lord and a Clerk upon Translation," printed as the preface to his translation of the Polychronicon	20
	from the preface to his translation of Hippocrates	21
	from the Defense et illustration de la langue francaise	22
	from the preface to his translation of Pliny's The Historie of the World	22
	from the "Dedication" to his translation of the Aeneid	24
	from the "Writings on Literature"	24
3	Poetics	26
	from "On the Way of Translating Well from One Language Into Another"	27
	from the preface to his translation of the Iliad	28
	from a Letter to Anne Dacier	30
	from "Something about William Shakespeare on the Occasion of Wilhelm Meister"	30
	from the preface to the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam	32
	from "The Art of Translation"	33
4	Universe of Discourse	35
	from the preface to his translation of Lucian	35
	from the preface to his translation of Virgil's Georgics	37
	from the preface to his translation of Young's Night Thoughts	39
	from the preface to his translation of Richardson's Pamela	39
	from the Preface to his translation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar	40
	from the preface to his translation of Aristophanes	40
	from the Essay on Translated Verse	43
5	Translation, the development of language and education	46
	from "On the Orator"; from "On the Limits of Good & Evil"	46
	from the "Guide to Rhetoric"	47
	from the "Letter to Pammachius"	47
	from "On the Knowledge of Languages"	49
	from "Versions or Translations"	50
	from his "Poetics"	52
	from "The Works of Homer by Johann Heinrich Voss"	54
	from the Defence of Poetry	56
	from the "Letters"	56
	from the "Critical Poetics"	57
	from "The State of German Literature"	57
6	The technique of translating	59
	from the "Letter to William Warham"	60
	from the "Rules of French Translation"	60
	from the prefatory texts to his translation of the Iliad	62
	from the preface to his translation of the Iliad	64
	from the "Letter to Herrn Reimer"	66
	from Dante and His Circle	67
	from "On Translating Homer"	68
7	Central texts and central cultures	70
	from the Confutation of Tyndale's Answer	71
	From "The Translators to the Reader," the preface to the Authorized Version	72
	from the "Fragments"	74
	from "Poetry and Truth"; from the "Book of East and West"; from the "Writings on Literature"	74
	from the "Argument between Languages"; from the "History of Classical Literature"	78
	from a letter to E. B. Cowell	80
8	Longer statements	81
	from "The Right Way to Translate"	81
	from "Two Books on Translation"	86
	from the preface to his translation of Ovid's Epistles	102
	from "Remarks on the Art of Translating," printed as the preface to his translation of Tacitus	105
	from "Principles of Literature"	116
	from the "Rules of Translation"	120
	from the "Ninety-Fourth Letter" in his "Painter of Morals"	124
	from the Essay on the Principles of Translation	128
	from the "Preface" to his translation of Aeschylus' Agamemnon	135
	from "On the Different Methods of Translating"	141
	from "What is Translation?", originally written as the preface to his translation of Euripides' Hippolytus	166
	Bibliographical references	172
	Index	175