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By Paul Davis

among the Civil battle and the early many years of the eighteenth century, English poets of the 1st rank dedicated extra in their time and artistic energies to translating than that they had ever performed earlier than or have ever performed considering. Paul Davis's Translation and the Poet's Life is the 1st examine to variety around the entirety of this golden age of poetic translation in England, taking as its organizing precept and item of inquiry the significances of translating itself as a particular mode of ingenious behavior. Composed of case stories of the 5 major poet-translators of the age - John Denham, Henry Vaughan, Abraham Cowley, John Dryden, and Alexander Pope - it explores the half translation performed of their lives as poets and thence in modelling 'the poet's lifestyles' in the course of what used to be a interval of transition among early-modern and smooth buildings of it.

The argumentative approach to the ebook is metaphorical. each one bankruptcy explores the influence at the concept and perform of the poet at factor of a metaphor or staff of metaphors widely present in modern translation discourse: specifically, figurations of the translator as an exile, as a baby, as a code-breaker, and as a slave; and comparisons of translation to friendship, sexual congress, metamorphosis and exchange. the vast majority of those metaphors have been entirely or possibly pejorative: translation remained a arguable perform all through this era, broadly depreciated and stigmatized.

Turning translator hence compelled the 5 significant poets thought of in Translation and the Poet's Life to adopt strenuous efforts of self-inquiry and self-presentation; to discover new solutions to questions necessary to their understandings of themselves and their status of their tradition: questions on vocation and occupation, repute and happiness, accountability and freedom. Translation and the Poet's lifestyles tells the tales of those own and public remakings.

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