Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Anne Dacier:from the introduction to her translation 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 Augusitinus: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 Stael:from the Writtings
Victor Hugo:from the preface to the New Shakespeare Translation
2 The power of patronage
John of Ttevisa:from the \〃Dialogue between a Lord and a Clerk upon Translation\〃,printed as the preface to his translation of the Polychronicon
Jean de Breche,called de Tours:from the preface to his translation of Hippocrates
Joachim Du Bellay:from the Defense et illustration de la langue francaise
Philemon Holland:from the preface to his translation of Pliny﹀s The Historie of the World
John Dryden:from the“Dedication”to his translation of the Aeneid
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:from the“Writings on Literature”
3 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 Schlegel:from“Something About William Shakespeare on the Occasion of Wilhelm Meister”
Edward Fitzgerald:from the preface to the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Ulrich von Willamowitz-Moellendorff:from“The Art of Translation”
4 Universe of Discourse
Nicolas Perrot d﹀Ablancourt︰from the preface to his translation of Lucian
Jacques Delille:from the preface to his translation of Virgil﹀s Georgics
Pierre le Tourneur:from the preface to his translation of Young﹀s Night Thoughts
Antoine Prevost，better known as Abbe Prevost:from the preface to his translation of Richardson﹀s Pamela
Voltaire（Francois-Marie Arouet）:from the preface to his translation of Shakespeare﹀s 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
6 The technique of translating
7 Central texts and central cultures
8 Longer statements
Bibliographical references
Index
