Gillespie Stuart 1958 (4 results)

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; vii, 572 p. ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects; Literature Translations into English History and criticism. Translating and interpreting English-speaking countries. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; vii, 572 p. ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects; Literature Translations into English History and criticism. Translating and interpreting English-speaking countries. 1 Kg.…

Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: ix, 208 pages. Contents: Front Matter -- Making the Classics Belong: A Historical Introduction -- Creative Translation -- English Renaissance Poets and the Translating Tradition -- Two-Way Reception: Shakespeare's Influence on Plutarch -- Transformative Translation: Dryden's Horatian Ode -- Statius and the Aesthetics of Eighteenth-Century Poetry -- Classical Translation and the Formation of the English Literary Canon -- Evidence for an Alternative History: Manuscript Translations of the Long Eighteenth Century -- Receiving Wordsworth, Receiving Juvenal: Wordsworth's Suppressed Eighth Satire -- The Persistence of Translations: Lucretius in the Nineteenth Century -- ?Oddity and struggling dumbness?: Ted Hughes's Homer -- Afterword -- References -- Index of Ancient Authors and Passages -- General Index.Making the classics belong: a historical introduction -- Creative translation -- English Renaissance poets and the translating tradition -- Two-way reception: Shakespeare's influence on Plutarch -- Transformative translation: Dryden's Horatian ode -- Statius and the aesthetics of eighteenth-century poetry -- Classical translation and the formation of the English literary canon -- Evidence for an alternative history: manuscript translations of the long eighteenth century -- Receiving Wordsworth, receiving Juvenal: Wordsworth's suppressed eighth satire -- The persistence of translations: Lucretius in the nineteenth century -- Oddity and struggling dumbness: Ted Hughes's Homer. Subjects: Classical literature ; Translations into English History and criticism. Classical literature Appreciation Great Britain History. English literature Classical influences. 1 Kg.…

Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: ix, 208 pages. Contents: Front Matter -- Making the Classics Belong: A Historical Introduction -- Creative Translation -- English Renaissance Poets and the Translating Tradition -- Two-Way Reception: Shakespeare's Influence on Plutarch -- Transformative Translation: Dryden's Horatian Ode -- Statius and the Aesthetics of Eighteenth-Century Poetry -- Classical Translation and the Formation of the English Literary Canon -- Evidence for an Alternative History: Manuscript Translations of the Long Eighteenth Century -- Receiving Wordsworth, Receiving Juvenal: Wordsworth's Suppressed Eighth Satire -- The Persistence of Translations: Lucretius in the Nineteenth Century -- Oddity and struggling dumbness : Ted Hughes's Homer -- Afterword -- References -- Index of Ancient Authors and Passages -- General Index.Making the classics belong: a historical introduction -- Creative translation -- English Renaissance poets and the translating tradition -- Two-way reception: Shakespeare's influence on Plutarch -- Transformative translation: Dryden's Horatian ode -- Statius and the aesthetics of eighteenth-century poetry -- Classical translation and the formation of the English literary canon -- Evidence for an alternative history: manuscript translations of the long eighteenth century -- Receiving Wordsworth, receiving Juvenal: Wordsworth's suppressed eighth satire -- The persistence of translations: Lucretius in the nineteenth century -- Oddity and struggling dumbness: Ted Hughes's Homer. Subjects: Classical literature ; Translations into English History and criticism. Classical literature Appreciation Great Britain History. English literature Classical influences. 1 Kg.…