Translation and Translations (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

On Sale: Feb 14, 2012
Page Count: 224 pages
Publisher: BookAnnex
ISBN-13: 9781411454873

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After spending half a century focused on Greek and Latin scholarship, the author shares his experiences and opinions on such translation subjects as fidelity, misrepresentation, translations posing as originals, sham originals, “libertine” translations, translation of verse and prose, and many more. Includes examples from Horace, Plato, Martial, Milton, and Shakespeare.

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John Percival Postgate (1853-1926) was an English classicist and Latin scholar who taught at the University of Liverpool, Cambridge, and University College, London. He edited the Classical Review and the Classical Quarterly as well as editions of the Latin poets Propertius, Lucan, Tibullus, and Phaedrus. His works in Latin include Corpus Poetarum Latinorum and Silva Maniliana.