... It remains that I should say somewhat of Poetical Translations in general, and give my
opinion (with submission to better judgments), which way of version seems to be the most …

In a rather disturbing way, literary translations continue to be threatened by the boundaries
that exist between languages. Thus, the art of translation will always have to cope with the …

When we learn to speak, we are learning to translate; the child who asks his mother the
meaning of a word is really asking her to translate the unfamiliar term into the simple words …

CAN AN WE OR SHOULD we be indifferent to the fact that this essay about the difference
that translation makes is itself a kind of" free" translation? Does it matter that, under a quite …

One of my friends asked me, on behalf of certain persons who wish to produce a fine book,
to translate the Eclogues in my own fashion. And desiring a symmetry that would make …

Spanning the centuries, from the seventeenth to the twentieth, and ranging across cultures,
from England to Mexico, this collection gathers together important statements on the function …

Before I begin, I have to confess that I do not read the Slavic languages and, as you can
understand, this is a great handicap for anyone interested in translation theory. It means that …

NA CURIOUS LETTER written when he was working on his trans-lation of Homer, Pope
reproduces, for the entertainment of the Earl of Burlington, a conversation with the …

OR TRANSLATION THEORY, banal messages are the" FOR breath of life." So remarks
Quine in his famous statement on translation in Word and Object. Both the truth and cynicism …

THIS IS a book about a basic process in all writing and thinking and, one is tempted to add,
in all experiencing. Whenever we meet an expression in any way foreign to us, whether in …