Poetry of Translation

Poetry is supposed to be untranslatable. But many poems in English are also translations: Pope''s Iliad, Pound''s Cathay, and Dryden''s Aeneis are only the most obvious examples. The Poetry of Translation explodes this paradox, launching a new theoretical approach to translation, and developing it through readings of English poem-translations, both major and neglected, from Chaucer and Petrarch to...