Matthew Reynolds is author of The Realms of Verse (2001) and of Designs for a Happy Home: A Novel in Ten Interiors (2009). He has co-edited a book of translations, Dante in English (2005), revised the translation of Manzoni's The Betrothed (1997), and for several years chaired the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. He writes frequently for the London Review of Books.

Review from previous edition: Wide-ranging and very readable ... He writes clearly, and the opening chapters offer friendly and careful negotiations of a fairly complex range of theoretical positions, accessibly introduced ... Reynolds does much to elucidate the relationship between the received wisdom about a text and the metaphors for translation that are applied to it.

• I. TRANSLATION AND METAPHOR; II. TRANSLATION AS 'INTERPRETATION,' AS 'PARAPHRASE,' AND AS 'OPENING'; III. TRANSLATION AS 'FRIENDSHIP,' AS 'DESIRE,' AND AS 'PASSION'; IV. TRANSLATION AND THE LANDSCAPE OF THE PAST; V. TRANSLATION AS 'LOSS,' AS 'DEATH,' AS 'RESURRECTION,' AND AS 'METAMORPHOSIS'

Matthew Reynolds is author of The Realms of Verse (2001) and of Designs for a Happy Home: A Novel in Ten Interiors (2009). He has co-edited a book of translations, Dante in English (2005), revised the translation of Manzoni's The Betrothed (1997), and for several years chaired the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. He writes frequently for the London Review of Books.

Review from previous edition: Wide-ranging and very readable ... He writes clearly, and the opening chapters offer friendly and careful negotiations of a fairly complex range of theoretical positions, accessibly introduced ... Reynolds does much to elucidate the relationship between the received wisdom about a text and the metaphors for translation that are applied to it.

• I. TRANSLATION AND METAPHOR; II. TRANSLATION AS 'INTERPRETATION,' AS 'PARAPHRASE,' AND AS 'OPENING'; III. TRANSLATION AS 'FRIENDSHIP,' AS 'DESIRE,' AND AS 'PASSION'; IV. TRANSLATION AND THE LANDSCAPE OF THE PAST; V. TRANSLATION AS 'LOSS,' AS 'DEATH,' AS 'RESURRECTION,' AND AS 'METAMORPHOSIS'

Matthew Reynolds is author of The Realms of Verse (2001) and of Designs for a Happy Home: A Novel in Ten Interiors (2009). He has co-edited a book of translations, Dante in English (2005), revised the translation of Manzoni's The Betrothed (1997), and for several years chaired the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. He writes frequently for the London Review of Books.

Review from previous edition: Wide-ranging and very readable ... He writes clearly, and the opening chapters offer friendly and careful negotiations of a fairly complex range of theoretical positions, accessibly introduced ... Reynolds does much to elucidate the relationship between the received wisdom about a text and the metaphors for translation that are applied to it.

• I. TRANSLATION AND METAPHOR; II. TRANSLATION AS 'INTERPRETATION,' AS 'PARAPHRASE,' AND AS 'OPENING'; III. TRANSLATION AS 'FRIENDSHIP,' AS 'DESIRE,' AND AS 'PASSION'; IV. TRANSLATION AND THE LANDSCAPE OF THE PAST; V. TRANSLATION AS 'LOSS,' AS 'DEATH,' AS 'RESURRECTION,' AND AS 'METAMORPHOSIS'