English Translation and Classical Reception: Towards a New Literary History

Acknowledgements.

Note on Texts.

1. Making the Classics Belong: A Historical Introduction.

2. Creative Translation.

3. English Renaissance Poets and the Translating Tradition.

4. Two-Way Reception: Shakespeare’s Influence on Plutarch.

5. Transformative Translation: Dryden’s Horatian Ode.

6. Statius and the Aesthetics of Eighteenth-Century Poetry.

7. Classical Translation and the Formation of the English Literary Canon.

8. Evidence for an Alternative History: Manuscript Translations of the Long Eighteenth Century.

9. Receiving Wordsworth, Receiving Juvenal: Wordsworth’s Suppressed Eighth Satire.

10. The Persistence of Translations: Lucretius in the Nineteenth Century.

11. ‘Oddity and struggling dumbness’: Ted Hughes’s Homer.

12. Afterword.

References.

Index of Ancient Authors and Passages.

General Index.