Overview

D. S. Carne-Ross was one of the finest critics of classical literature in English translation after Arnold. More than four decades of Carne-Ross's writings are represented in this volume, which includes criticism of both ancient and modern writers, in addition to historical-critical studies of translation, discriminating analyses of translators widely read today, and investigations in the relationship between translation, criticism, and literary creation. This book will appeal to a wide audience including classicists, specialists in reception and translation studies, students of comparative literature, and literary readers.

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'Classics and Translation...offers...a very much welcome addition to the translation studies and classical reception studies canons...Classics and Translation is that rare essay collection worth reading, and enjoying, cover to cover.' -- Simon Perris Bryn Mawr Classical Review

'Classics and Translation...offers...a very much welcome addition to the translation studies and classical reception studies canons...Classics and Translation is that rare essay collection worth reading, and enjoying, cover to cover.' -- Simon Perris * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *

'Classics and Translation...offers...a very much welcome addition to the translation studies and classical reception studies canons...Classics and Translation is that rare essay collection worth reading, and enjoying, cover to cover.'--Simon Perris Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2011

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D.S. Carne-Ross (1921-2010) wrote extensively on classics and translation. He taught at the University of Texas at Austin in the 1960s and at the University Professors at Boston University for several decades before his retirement. He was an editor of three literary magazines, Nine, Arion, and Delos. Instaurations, his first collection of essays, was published in 1979, and his critical study Pindar appeared in 1985. Kenneth Haynes is associate professor of comparative literature and classics at Brown University.

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