"While the sociology of literary translation is by now well-established, and even flourishing, the same cannot be said specifically for the sociology of poetry

This volume provides an in-depth comparative study of translation practices and the role of the poet-translator across different countries and in so doing, demo

While the sociology of literary translation is well-established, and even flourishing, the same cannot be said for the sociology of poetry translation. Sociolog

Poetry is a highly valued form of human expression, and poems are challenging texts to translate. For both reasons, people willingly work long and hard to trans

Poetry is supposed to be untranslatable. But many poems in English are also translations: Pope's Iliad, Pound's Cathay, and Dryden's Aeneis are only the most ob