Early Theories of Translation

by Ross Flora Amos

PREFACE IN the following pages I have attempted to trace certain developments in the theory of translation as it has been formulated by English writers. I have confined myself, of necessity, to such opinions as have been put into words, and a voided making use of deductions from practice other than a few obvious and generally accepted conclusions. The procedure involves, of course, the omission of some important elements in the history of the theory of translation, in th.t it ignores the discrepanci.es between precept and practice, and the influence which pr.ctice has exerted upon theory; on the other hand, however, it confines a subject, otherwise impossibly large, within measurable limits. The chier emphasis has been laid upon the sixteenth century, the period of the most enthusiastic experimentation, when, though it was still possible for the translator to rest in the comfortable medieval conception of his art, the New Learning was offering new problems and new idea

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; ClLU'TER; 1 THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD ; n THE TRANSLATION' OP THE BmLE; III SIXTEENTH CENTURY; IV FROM COWLEY TO POPE; INDEX ; PAO~; 49; 81; 135; 181

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First published May 8, 2006

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