one that he fleshes out by briefly visiting millennia of translation history. In antiquity, he writes, translators were expected simply to convey knowledge. Nobody expected books to be translated ...

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You can see the book becoming a cult text. Modern Poetry gives readers more space to breathe. Inspired by a poetry textbook of the same name which she read as a child, it’s a condensed history ...