Translation as Transformation in Victorian Poetry

Annmarie Drury is Assistant Professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York. Many of her own poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Raritan, and the Western Humanities Review. She has also published translations of, and essays on, Swahili poetry. Her book Stray Truths: Selected Poems of Euphrase Kezilahabi (2015), offers translations of the Tanzanian writer's poetry.

• Introduction: Victorian translations, poetic transformations; 1. Discovering a Victorian culture of translation; 2. Idylls of the King, the Mabinogion, and Tennyson's faithless melancholy; 3. In poetry and translation, Browning's case for innovation; 4. The Rubáiyát and its compass; 5. The persistence of Victorian translation practice: William Hichens and the Swahili world; Epilogue: Victorian translators and 'the epoch of world literature'; Bibliography.

'This book captures some of the many reasons why it's an exciting time to be a scholar of the British nineteenth century. … An important contribution to our emerging understanding of historical poetics. I hope other scholars consider her methods and continue the work of making Victorian poetry a more complex and world-conscious field of study.' Jason Rudy, Review 19 (www.nbol-19.org)