Translation and the poet's life [electronic resource] : the ethics of translating in English culture, 1646-1726 / Paul Davis.
Publication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 324 p.) : illISBN:- 9780199297832
- English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism
- English poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism
- Classical poetry -- Translations into English -- History and criticism
- Translators -- England -- History -- 17th century
- Translators -- England -- History -- 18th century
- Poets, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700
- Poets, English -- 18th century
- Translating and interpreting -- Moral and ethical aspects
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- PR541
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Paul Davis explores the personal and cultural significances of translating as a distinctive mode of imaginative conduct for the five principal poet-translators of what was the golden age of the art in England: John Denham, Henry Vaughan, Abraham Cowley John Dryden, and Alexander Pope.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.