Description: Introduction 1. Hugo Friedrich On The Art of Translation 2. John Dryden On Translation 3. Arthur Schopenhauer On Language and Words 4. Friedrich Schleiermacher From On the Different Methods of Translating 5. Wilhelm von Humboldt From Introduction to His Translation of Agamemnon 6. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Translations 7. Dante Gabriel Rossetti Preface to The Early Italian Poets 8. Friedrich Nietzsche On the Problem of Translation 9. Walter Benjamin The Task of the Translator 10. Ezra Pound Guido's Relations 11. Jos Ortega y Gasset The Misery and the Splendor of Translation 12. Paul Valry Variations on the Eclogues 13. Vladimir Nabokov Problems of Translation: Onegin in English 14. Roman Jakobson On Linguistic Aspects of Translation 15. Octavio Paz Translation: Literature and Letters 16. Peter Szondi The Poetry of Constancy: Paul Celan's Translation of Shakespeare's Sonnet 105 17. Yves Bonnefoy Translating Poetry 18. Henry Schogt Semantic Theory and Translation Theory 19. Michael Riffaterre Transposing Presuppositions on the Semiotics of Literary Translation 20. Jacques Derrida From Des Tours de Babel 21. Hans Erich Nossack Translating and Being Translated Biographies of the Essayists Select Bibliography

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