English Translation and Classical Reception

THE AUTHOR STUART GILLESPIE is Reader in English Literature at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. His recent publications include Shakespeare's Books: A Dictionary of Shakespeare Sources (2001), Shakespeare and Elizabethan Popular Culture, edited with Neil Rhodes (2006), and The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius, edited with Philip Hardie (2007). He edits the journal Translation and Literature and is co-editor of the Oxford History of Literary Translation in English.

• Preface viAcknowledgements viiiNote on Texts x1. Making the Classics Belong: A Historical Introduction 12. Creative Translation 203. English Renaissance Poets and the Translating Tradition 334. Two-Way Reception: Shakespeare’s Influence on Plutarch 475 Transformative Translation: Dryden’s Horatian Ode 606. Statius and the Aesthetics of Eighteenth-Century Poetry 767. Classical Translation and the Formation of the English Literary Canon 938. Evidence for an Alternative History: Manuscript Translations of the Long Eighteenth Century 1049. Receiving Wordsworth, Receiving Juvenal: Wordsworth’s Suppressed Eighth Satire 12310. The Persistence of Translations: Lucretius in the Nineteenth Century 15011. ‘Oddity and struggling dumbness’: Ted Hughes’s Homer 16312. Afterword 180References 183Index of Ancient Authors and Passages 200General Index 203

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