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• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Editor’s Preface
• Herodotus
• The Twittering of Birds
• From Histories, Book Two (Istoria, mid-5th century B.C.E.)
• The Origin of the Class of Egyptian Interpreters
• From Histories, Book Two (Istoria, mid-5th century B.C.E.)
• Anonymous (‘Aristeas’)
• The Work of the Seventy-Two
• From Aristeas to Philocrates (around 130 B.C.E)
• Marcus Tullius Cicero
• Translating Greek Orations into Latin
• From De oratore (55 B.C.E.?)
• The Best Kind of Orator (52 B.C.E)
• Translating Greek Philosophy into Latin
• From De finibus bonorum et malorum (45–44 B.C.E.)
• Philo judaeus
• The Creation of the Septuagint
• From De vita Mosis (20 B.C.E.?)
• Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
• Imitating in Your Own Words
• From Ars Poetica (20 B.C.E?)
• Paul of Tarsus
• Rather Five Words With the Mind Than Ten Thousand in a Tongue
• 1 Corinthians 14 (55 C.E.?)
• Lucius Annaeus Seneca
• What Is
• From Epistulae morales ad Lucilium, letter 58, 63–65 C.E.)
• Pliny the Younger (Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus)
• Imitation of the Best Models
• Letter to Fuscus Salinator (85 C.E.?)
• Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus)
• On What We Should Employ Ourselves When We Write
• From Institutiones oratoriae (96 C.E.?)
• Aulus Gellius
• On the Importance of Avoiding Strict Literalness
• From Noctes Atticae (100 C.E.?)
• Epiphanius of Constantia (Salamis)
• Producing an Unadulterated Translation
• From De mensuris et ponderibus (392)
• Jerome (Eusebius Hieronymus)
• The Best Kind of Translator
• Letter to Pammachius (395)
• Who Was The First Lying Author?
• From Prefatio in Pentateuchem (401)
• Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus)
• The Use of Translations
• From De doctrina Christiana (428)
• I
• II
• III
• IV
• V
• X
• XI
• XII
• XIII
• XIV
• XV
• C. Chirius Fortunatianus
• Translation as Exercitatio
• From Artes rhetoricae (5th century)
• Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
• Committing the Fault of the True Interpreter
• From In Isagoge Porphyrii Commenta (510?)
• Gregory the Great
• Giving the Sense
• From letter to Aristobulus (590/91)
• Mangling the Sense
• From letter to Narses (597/98)
• John Scotus Eriugena
• Translator, Not Expositor
• From prologue to translation of De caelesti hierarchia by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (mid-9th century)
• King Alfred
• Translating Plainly and Clearly
• Preface to Translation of Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy (887?)
• Translating Books Which Are Most Necessary For All Men to Know
• Letter to Bishop Waerferth (890/97)
• Aelfric
• Translating Into Our Ordinary Speech
• From Preface to Book I of Catholic Homilies (989)
• Pure and Plain Words
• Preface to Book II of Catholic Homilies (992)
• Translating into Idiomatic English
• Preface to Genesis (997?)
• Notker the German
• Letter to Bishop Hugo von Sitten (c. 1015)
• Burgundio of Pisa
• The Risk of Altering So Great an Original
• From preface to Latin translation of In commentatione Iohannis Crisostomi supra evangelium sancti Iohannis evangeliste (1170s)
• Anonymous
• The Three Kinds of Translating (12th century)
• From Commentary on Boethius’ De arithmetica (12th century)
• Thomas Aquinas
• Proem
• From Contra errores Graecorum (1263?)
• Roger Bacon
• On the Usefulness of Grammar
• From Opus Maius (1268?)
• Jean de Meun
• Translating for Lay People
• From prologue to Roman de la Rose (c. 1280)
• Plainly Rendering the Sense
• From dedication to translation of Boethius’ Li Livres de Confort de Philosophie (between 1285 and 1305)
• Dante Alighieri
• Translation Destroys the Sweetness of the Original
• From Il convivio (1304–1307)
• Anonymous
• Another Meaning
• From Ovide moralisé (early 14th century)
• Richard Rolle
• Following the Letter
• Prologue to English Translation of the Psalter (1330s)
• John of Trevisa
• Dialogue Between a Lord and a Clerk upon Translation (1387)
• Coluccio Salutati
• Letter to Antonio Loschi (1392)
• Anonymous (John Purvey?)
• On Translating the Bible (1395/97)
• Leonardo Bruni
• On the Correct Way of Translating (1424/26)
• King Duarte
• The Art of Translating from Latin
• From O Leal Conselheiro (1430s)
• William Caxton
• Prologue to Aeneid (1490)
• Desiderius Erasmus
• Letter to Nicholas Ruistre (1503)
• Letter to William Warham (1506)
• Letter to William Warham (1507)
• Letter to Maarten Lips (1518)
• Thomas More
• Whether the Clergy of This Realm Have Forbidden All the People to Have Any Scripture Translated into our Tongue
• From A Dialogue Concerning Heresies and Matters of Religion (1529)
• Marten Luther
• Circular Letter on Translation (1530)
• William Tyndale
• How Happeneth That Ye Defenders Translate Not One Yourselves?
• From An Answer to Sir Thomas More’s Dialogue (1531)
• Juan Luis Vives
• Practice in Writing
• From De Tradendis Disciplinis (1531)
• Translation and Interpretation
• From De ratione dicendi (1533)
• Etienne Dolet
• The Way to Translate Well From One Language into Another (1540)
• Elifobeth Tudor
• Letter to Catherine Parr
• Prefaced to translation of Queen Marguerite of Navarre, ‘The Glasse of the Synnefull Soule’ (1544)
• The Study of a Woman
• From Preface to Her Translation of Queen Marguerite of Navarre, A godly Medytacyon of the christen Sowle (1548)
• Mikael Agricola
• Preface to the New Testament (1548)
• Joachim du Bellay
• The Defense and Illustration of the French Lan-guage (1549)
• Anna Cooke
• The Study of Italian Justified
• From preface to translation of Bernadine Ochine, Fouretene sermons (1550?)
• Jacques Peletier
• Of Translation
• From L’art poétique franςaise (1555)
• Roger Ascham
• The Ready Way to the Latin Tongue
• From The Schoolmaster (1570)
• Etienne Pasquier
• Letter to Jacques Cujas (1576)
• Letter to Odet de Tournebus (1576)
• Margaret Tyler
• M.T to the Reader
• From preface to translation of Diego Ortunes de Calahorra, A mirrour of princely deedes and knighthood (1578)
• Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
• We Call Barbarous Anything That is Contrary to Our Own Habits
• From ‘Des cannibales’, 1580)
• Gregory Martin
• Five Sundry Abuses or Corruptions of Holy Scripture
• From the preface to A Discovery of the Manifold Corruptions of the Holy Scriptures (1582)
• The Holy Scriptures Ought Not be Read Indiffer-ently of All
• From ‘Preface to the Reader’, The New Testament of Jesus Christ (1582)
• William Fulke
• That None Of These Five Abuses are Committed By Us
• From preface to A Defence of the Sincere and True Translations of the Holy Scriptures into the English Tongue, Against the Cavils of Gregory Martin (1583)
• The Holy Scriptures Should Always Be in Our Mother Tongue
• From ‘Confutation of the Rhemists’ Preface’, Confutation of the Rhemist Testament (1589)
• John Florio
• The Epistle Dedicatory
• Preface to translation of Montaigne’s Essays (1603)
• To the Courteous Reader
• Preface to translation of Montaigne’s Essays (1603)
• George Chapman
• The Preface to the Reader
• From his translation of the Iliad (1611)
• Miles Smith
• The Translators to the Reader
• Preface to the King James Version of the Bible (1611)
• Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
• Viewing Flemish Tapestries From the Wrong Side
• From Don Quixote, Part II (1615)
• Jean Chapelain
• To the Reader
• Preface to translation of Le Gueux, ou la vie de Guzman d’Alfarache (1619-1620)
• Joseph Webbe
• Perceiving the Custom of the Ancients
• From An Appeal to Truth, Concerning Art and Use (1622)
• Suzanne du Vegerre
• The Author’s Epistle to the READER
• Preface to her translation of John Peter Camus, Admirable Events (1639)
• John Denham
• To Sir Richard Fanshaw Upon His Translation of Pastor Fido (1648)
• Preface to The Destruction of Troy (1656)
• Nicolas Perrot d’Ablancourt
• To Monsieur Conrart
• Dedication of French translation of Lucian (1654)
• Adjusting Things to Accommodate the Subject
• From Preface to French translation of Thucydides (1662)
• Abraham Cowley
• Preface to Pindarique Odes (1656)
• Pierre Daniel Huet
• Concerning the Best Kind of Translation
• From De optimo genere interpretandi (1661)
• Katherine Philips
• Translating Pompey
• From Letters from Orinda to Poliarchus (1663)
• John Dryden
• The Three Types of Translation
• From ‘Preface’ to Ovid’s Epistles (1680)
• Steering Betwixt Two Extremes
• From ‘Dedication of the Aeneis’ (1697)
• Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon
• An Essay on Translated Verse (1684)
• Apha Behn
• Translating French Into English
• From ‘An Essay on Translated Prose’ (1688)
• Recasting, Not Translating
• From ‘The Preface to the History of Oracles’ (1688)
• Gottfried wilhelm Leibniz
• Enriching the German Language
• From Unvorgreifliche Gedanken, betreffend die Ausübung und Verbesserung der deutschen Sprache (1697)
• Anne Dacier
• My Condemnation
• From preface to translation of L‘Iliade d‘Homère (1699)
• Joseph Addison
• National Accents
• Spectator no. 29 (April 3, 1711)
• Alexander Pope
• The Chief Characteristic of Translation
• From preface to the Iliad (1715)
• Charles Batteux
• Principles of Translation
• From Principles de littérature (1747–48)
• Elizabeth Carter
• Translating Epictetus
• Letters to and from Catherine Talbot and Thomas Secker, Bishop of Oxford (1749-1757)
• Samuel Johnson
• The Art of Translation
• The Idler 68/69 (1759)
• Translating Homer
• From ‘Life of Pope’ (1779–81)
• Johann Gottfried von Herder
• The Ideal Translator
• From Über die neuere Deutschen Litteratur. Fragmente (1766–1767)
• Language as Maiden
• From Über die neuere Deutschen Litteratur. Fragmente, rev.ed. (1768)
• Alexander Fraser Tytler
• The Proper Task of a Translator
• From Essay on the Principles of Translation (1790)
• Chapter I
• Chapter II
• Chapter V
• Chapter IX
• Novalis (Friedrich Leopold, Baron von Hardenberg)
• Translating Out of Poetic Morality
• From a letter to A. W. Schlegel (1790)
• Grammatical, Transformative, and Mythic
• From Blütenstaub (1798)
• August Wilhelm von Schlegel
• Noble Rust
• From ‘Dante – Über die Göttliche Komödie’ (1791)
• At Once Faithful and Poetic
• From ‘Etwas über Wilhelm Shake-speare bei Gelegen heit Wilhelm Meisters’ (1796)
• Poetic Translation an Imperfect Approximation
• From Homers Werke von Johann Heinrich Voss’ (1796)
• Projecting Oneself into Foreign Mentalities
• From Geschichte der klassischen Literatur (1802)
• The Speaking Voice of the Civilized World
• From Geschichte der romantischen Literatur (1803)
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Prose Translations
• From Dichtung und Wahrheit (1811)
• The Two Maxims
• From ‘Rede zum Andenken des edlen Dichters, Bruders und Freundes Wieland’ (1813)
• Translations
• From notes to West-Östlicher Divan (1819)
• The Translator as Matchmaker
• From Maximen und Reflexionen (‘Maxims and Reflections’, 1826)
• On Carlyle’s German Romance (1828)
• Friedrich Schleiermacher
• On the Different Methods of Translating (1813)
• Wilhelm von Humboldt
• The More Faithful, The More Divergent
• From introduction to translation of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon (1816)
• Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker, Baronne de Staül-Holstein
• On the Spirit of Translations (1816)
• Percy Bysshe Shelley
• The Violet and the Crucible
• From ‘A Defence of Poetry’ (1821)
• Arthur Schopenhauer
• On Language and Words
• From Parerga und Paralipomena (1851)
• 306
• 307
• 308
• 309
• Edward FitzGerald
• Letter to E. B. Cowell (1859)
• Letter to J. R. Lowell (1878)
• Matthew Arnold
• The Translator’s Tribunal
• From On Translating Homer (1861)
• Francis W. Newman
• The Unlearned Public is the Rightful Judge of Taste
• From Homeric Translation in Theory and Practice (1861)
• Richard F. Burton
• Clothing the Skeleton
• From Preface to translation of Vikram and the Vampire (1870)
• A Plain and Literal Translation
• From Introduction to The Book of The Thousand Nights and a Night (1885)
• Robert Browning
• Literal At Every Cost
• From Preface to Translation of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon (1877)
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Translation as Conquest
• From Die fröhliche Wissenschaft (1882)
• Translating the Tempo of the Original
• From Jenseits Gutes und Böses (1886)
• Biographies
• Further Reading
• Classical Antiquity
• Middle Ages
• Bible Translation, 14th to 16th Centuries
• The Renaissance
• (Pre-) Romanticism
• References
• Primary Sources
• Secondary Sources
• Name Index
• Subject Index
• Title Index