Browning and translationese

Essays in Criticism

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 97-128

  Reynolds, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1093/eic/53.2.97     Document Type: Note

References (39)

1. Aristophanes' Apology; including a Transcript from Euripides: Being the Last Adventure of Balaustion, 3592-5. Except where otherwise noted, Browning's works are quoted from The Poems, ed. John Pettigrew, supplemented and completed by Thomas J. Collins, 2 vols. (Harmondsworth, 1981).
2. George Steiner, After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation, 3rd edn. (Oxford, 1998), pp. 332, 338.
3. Guardian, 20 July 2002, 'Review', p. 3.
4. D. S. Carne-Ross, 'Jocasta's Divine Head: English with a Foreign Accent', Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics, 3rd sen, 1/1 (Winter 1990), 106-40: 108, 107.
5. Luria V. 261, quoted from The Poems of Browning, ed. John Woolford and Daniel Karlin (1991-).
6. The authoritative investigation of this fact is in Eric Griffiths, The Printed Voice of Victorian Poetry (Oxford, 1989), pp. 252-60.
7. The Works of John Dryden, ed. Edward Niles Hooker and H. T. Swedenberg Jr., 20 vols. (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1956-89), v. 330-1.
8. I appropriate this word from Paul Strohm, 'Ripe for Conversion', London Review of Books, 24/13 (2002), 19, who refers to the work of the late Naomi Schor.
9. Sarah Wood, Robert Browning: A Literary Life (Basingstoke and New York, 2001), p. 158.
10. Jacques Derrida, 'Des Tours de Babel', in Joseph F. Graham (ed.), Difference in Translation (Ithaca, NY, 1985), pp. 209-48: 217.
11. The Poetical Works of Robert Browning, 17 vols. (1888-9), xiii. 261.
12. Balaustion's Adventure, 720, 1055 (Epigraph) (emended to small capitals as in the 1871 and 1888-9 editions), 203.
13. Alcestis, 51, quoted from Euripides, with an English translation by Arthur S. Way, 4 vols. (Cambridge, Mass. and London, 1980);
14. Balaustion's Adventure, 456.
15. See e.g. Aristophanes' Apology, 242, 1530-2.
16. As Adam Roberts has shown, some of the Greek words elsewhere in the poem are too rude to have been translatable: 'Euripidaristophanizing: Browning's Aristophanes' Apology', Browning Society Notes, 20/2 (1990-1), 32-45.
17. Cf. K. J. Dover, 'Translation: The Speakable and the Unspeakable', E in C 30/1 (Jan. 1980), 1-7: 2.
18. Poetical Works (1888-9), xiii. 261-2.
19. I have restored the 'our', in 'our English', from the first edition (1877), p. v. Yopie Prins, 'Violence Bridling Speech: Browning's Translation of Aeschylus's Agamemnon', Victorian Poetry, 27/3-4 (Autumn/Winter 1989), 151-70: 168.
20. Literary Essays of Ezra Pound, ed. with an introduction by T. S. Eliot (1954), pp. 267-8.
21. Aeschylus, Agamemnon, ed. Eduard Fraenkel, 3 vols. (Oxford, 1950; repr. with corrections 1962), ll. 264-5.
22. See Christopher Ricks, The Force of Poetry (Oxford, 1984), p. 326.
23. Prins, 'Violence Bridling Speech', 153.
24. Henry Schliemann, Mycenae; A Narrative of Researches and Discoveries at Mycenae and Tiryns, with a preface by the Right Honourable W. E. Gladstone MP (1878), pp. vi-vii, xvi;
25. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, 22 Mar. 1877, p. 7.
26. Walter Benjamin, Illuminations, ed. with an introduction by Hannah Arendt, trans. Harry Zohn, new edn. (1992), p. 77;
27. Schriften, 2 vols. (Frankfurt, 1955), i. 48.
28. Lawrence Venuti, The Translator's Invisibility: A History of Translation (London and New York, 1995), pp. 115-16.
29. Boyd Litzinger and Donald Smalley (eds.), Browning: The Critical Heritage (1970), pp. 433-9.
30. Books I-VIII of The Ring and the Book are quoted from The Poetical Works of Robert Browning, ed. Stefan Hawlin and Tim Burnett (Oxford, 1998-2001), vols. vii and viii, and Books IX-XII from Poetical Works (1888-9), vol. x.
31. Charles W. Hodell, The Old Yellow Book: Source of Browning's The Ring and the Book, photo reproduction with translation, essay, and notes, 2nd edn. (Washington, DC, 1908), p. [II].
32. Friedrich Schleiermacher, 'On the Different Methods of Translation', trans. Waltraud Bartscht, in Rainer Schulte and John Biguenet (eds.), Theories of Translation: An Anthology of Essays from Dryden to Derrida (Chicago and London, 1992), pp. 36-54: 38 (I have adjusted the translation);
33. Sammtliche Werke, 3: Zur Philosophie, 2 vols. (Berlin 1938), ii. 213.
34. On Browning's knowledge of Schleiermacher, see W. David Shaw, The Lucid Veil: Poetic Truth in the Victorian Age (1987), pp. 212-17.
35. Pliny, Naturalis Historia 17.38.
36. E. Warwick Slinn, Browning and the Fictions of Identity (1982), p. 113.
37. Alessandro Manzoni, I promessi sposi, with critical commentary by Luigi Russo (Florence, 1985), p. 35;
38. Dante Alighieri, De vulgari eloquentia, ed. Sergio Cecchin (Milan, 1983), I. i. 4.
39. Henry James, Notes on Novelists (1914), p. 316.