翻译、历史与文化论集

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 Plinys 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 dAblancourt： from the preface to his

translation of Lucian

Jacques Delille： from the preface to his translation of

Virgils Georgics

Pierre le Tourneur： from the preface to his

translation of Youngs Night Thoughts

Antoine Pr6vost， better known as Ahb6 Pr6vost：

from the preface to his translation of

Richardsons Pamela

Voltaire （Francois-Marie Arouet） ： from the preface

to his translation of Shakespeares 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 Tyndales

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

Ovids Epistles

Jean le Rond dAlembert： 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 lEstaing： 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

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