Previously little-known, unknown, and sometimes suppressed translated texts are recovered from manuscripts and explored in terms of their implications for Eng
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Table of Contents
Preface vi
Acknowledgements viii
Note on Texts x
1. Making the Classics Belong: A Historical Introduction 1
2. Creative Translation 20
3. English Renaissance Poets and the Translating Tradition 33
4. Two-Way Reception: Shakespeare’s Influence on Plutarch 47
5 Transformative Translation: Dryden’s Horatian Ode 60
6. Statius and the Aesthetics of Eighteenth-Century Poetry 76
7. Classical Translation and the Formation of the English Literary Canon 93
8. Evidence for an Alternative History: Manuscript Translations of the Long Eighteenth Century 104
9. Receiving Wordsworth, Receiving Juvenal: Wordsworth’s Suppressed Eighth Satire 123
10. The Persistence of Translations: Lucretius in the Nineteenth Century 150
11. ‘Oddity and struggling dumbness’: Ted Hughes’s Homer 163
12. Afterword 180
References 183
Index of Ancient Authors and Passages 200
General Index 203
