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The Poetry of Translation: From Chaucer & Petrarch to Homer & Logue

This develops a new way of thinking about translation, substantiated by readings of major poem-translations into English from Chaucer to the present day. The methodological parts of the book tackles a large body of theory about translation, both contemporary and older, and draws also on theories of metaphor and of reading. Each of the substantial analyses involved serious work on the source texts, and the intermediate editions and translations through which they reached the poet-translators: arriving at a sufficient understanding of them involved much discussion with relevant experts. The book is the culmination of a decade's research.