Preface AcknOwledgments Introduction Anne Dacier: from the introduction to hertranslation of the Iliad 1 The role of ideology in the shaping of a translation Flaccus Quintus Horatius: from the \Letter to the Pisones, \ also known as the Ars Poetica Aurelius Augustinus (Saint Augustine) : from \On the Christian Doctrine\; from the \Letter to Saint Jerome\ Martin Luther:from the \Circular Letter on Translation\ August Wilhelm Schlegel: from the \History of Romantic Literature\ Anne Louise Germaine de Sta61: from the Writings Victor Hugo: from the preface to the New Shakespeare Translation 2 The power of patronage John of Trevisa: from the \Dialogue between a Lord and a Clerk upon Translation, \ printed as the preface to his translation of the Polychronicon Jean de Br6che, called de Tours: from the preface to his translation of Hippocrates Joachim Du Bellay: from the Dkfense et illustration de la langue francaise Philemon Holland: from the preface to his translation of Pliny's The Historic of the World John Dryden: from the \Dedication\ to his translation of the Aeneid Johann Wolfgang yon Goethe: from the \Writings on Literature\ Poetics Etienne Dolet: from \On the Way of Translating Well from One Language into Another\ Antoine Houdar de la Motte: from the preface to his translation of the Iliad Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet) : from a letter to Anne Dacier August Wilhelm Sch|egel: from \Something About William Shakespeare on the Occasion of Wilhelm Meister\ Edward Fitzgerald: from the preface to the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Ulrich yon Willamowitz-Moellendorff: from \The Art of Translation\ Universe of Discourse Nicolas Perrot d'Ablancourt: from the preface to his translation of Lucian Jacques Delille: from the preface to his translation of Virgil's Georgics Pierre le Tourneur: from the preface to his translation of Young's Night Thoughts Antoine Pr6vost, better known as Ahb6 Pr6vost: from the preface to his translation of Richardson's Pamela Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet) : from the preface to his translation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar John Hookham Frere: from the preface to his translation of Aristophanes Dillon Wentworth, Earl of Roscommon: from the Essay on Translated Verse 5 Translation, the development of language, and education Marcus Tullius Cicero: from \On the Orator\; from \On the Limits of Good and Evil\ Marcus Fabius Quintilianus: from the \Guide to Rhetoric\ Hieronymus (Saint Jerome) : from the \Letter to Pammachius\ Roger Bacon: from \On the Knowledge of Languages\ Juan Luis Vires: from \Versions or Translations\ Jacques Pelletier du Mans- from his \Poetics\ August Wilhelm Schlegel: from \The Works of Homer by Johann Heinrich Voss\ Percy Bysshe Shelley: from \A Defence of Poetry\ Gaius Caecilius Plinius Secundus: from the \Letters\ Johann Christoph Gottsched: from the \Critical Poetics\ Thomas Carlyle: from \The State of German Literature\ 6 The technique of translating Desiderius Erasmus: from the \Letter to William Warham\ Antoine Lemaistre: from the \Rules of French Translation\ George Chapman: from the prefatory texts to his translation of the Iliad Alexander Pope: from the preface to his translation of the Iliad August Wilhelm Schlegel: from the \Letter to Herrn Reimer\ Dante Gabriel Rossetti: from Dante and His Circle Matthew Arnold: from \On Translating Homer\ 7 Central texts and central cultures Sir Thomas More: from the Confutation of Tyndale's Answer Anonymous: from \The Translators to the Reader, \ the preface to the Authorized Version Johann Gottfried Herder: from the \Fragments\ Johann Wolfgang yon Goethe: from \Poetry and Truth\; from the \Book of West and East\; from the \Writings on Literature\ August Wilhelm Schlegel: from the \Argument Between Languages\; from the \History of Classical Literature\ Edward Fitzgerald: from a letter to E. B. Cowell Longer statements Leonardo Bruni, called Aretino: from \The Right Way to Translate\ Petrus Danielus Huetius: from \Two Books on Translation\ John Dryden: from the preface to his translation of Ovid's Epistles Jean le Rond d'Alembert: from \Remarks on the Art of Translating,\ printed as the preface to his translation of Tacitus Charles Batteux: from \Principles of Literature\ Gaspard de Tende, sieur de l'Estaing: from the \Rules of Translation\ Johann Jakob Bodmer: from the \Ninety-Fourth Letter\ in his \Painter of Morals\ Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee: from the Essay on the Principles of Translation Wilhelm von Humboldt: from the preface to his translation of Aeschylus' Agamemnon Friedrich Schleiermacher: from \On the Different Methods of Translating\ Ulrich von Willamowitz-Moellendorff: from \What is Translation?\, originally written as the preface to his translation of Euripides' Hippolytus Bibliographical references Index