Edward Craven Hawtrey
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| - | '''''On Translating Homer''''', published in January 1861, was a printed version of the series of public lectures given by [[Matthew Arnold]] as [[Professor of Poetry]] at [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] from 3 November 1860 to 18 December 1860. | + | '''Edward Craven Hawtrey''' (7 May 1789{{snd}}27 January 1862) was an [[England|English]] [[educationalist]], headmaster and later provost of [[Eton College]]. |
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| - | Arnold's purpose was to discuss how his principles of [[literary criticism]] applied to the two [[Homer]]ic [[Epic poetry|epic]]s and to the translation of a classical text. He comments with disapproval on [[John Ruskin]]'s 1860 review article "The English translators of Homer" in the ''[[National Review (London)|National Review]]''. He gives much space to comparing and criticizing already-published translations of the epics, notably | + | |
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| - | * [[George Chapman]]’s ''[[Odyssey]]'' | + | |
| - | * [[Alexander Pope]]’s ''[[Iliad]]'' | + | |
| - | * [[William Cowper]]'s ''Iliad'' | + | |
| - | * [[Ichabod Charles Wright]]'s ''Iliad'' (vol. 1, 1859; vol. 2 was to appear in 1865) | + | |
| - | * [[Francis William Newman|F. W. Newman]]'s ''Iliad'' (1856) | + | |
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| - | He adds polite comments on [[William Maginn]]'s ''Homeric Ballads'' (which first appeared in ''[[Fraser's Magazine]]'', where Arnold intended to publish these lectures). | + | |
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| - | Arnold identifies four essential qualities of Homer the poet to which the translator must do justice:<blockquote>that he is eminently rapid; that he is eminently plain and direct both in the evolution of his thought and in the expression of it, that is, both in his syntax and in his words; that he is eminently plain and direct in the substance of his thought, that is, in his matter and ideas; and, finally, that he is eminently noble</blockquote> | + | |
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| - | After a discussion of the meters employed by previous translators, and in other existing English narrative poetry, he argues the need for a translation of the ''Iliad'' in [[hexameter]]s in a poetical dialect, like the original. He notes the German translations of the ''Iliad'' and ''Odyssey'' into hexameters by [[Johann Heinrich Voss]]. He quotes English hexameter translations of short Homeric passages by himself and by [[Edward Craven Hawtrey|E. C. Hawtrey]] and also surveys original English hexameter poetry, including | + | |
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| - | * [[Arthur Hugh Clough]], ''[[The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich]]'' | + | |
| - | * [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]], ''[[Evangeline]]'' | + | |
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| - | Arnold reserved much space for the criticism of the recently published translation of the ''Iliad'' into a ballad-like metre by F. W. Newman. Newman took offence at Arnold's public criticism of his translation, and published a reply, ''Homeric Translation in Theory and Practice''. To this Arnold in turn responded, with a last lecture, given at Oxford on 30 November 1861, afterwards separately published in March 1862 under the title ''On Translating Homer: last words''. | + | |
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Edward Craven Hawtrey (7 May 1789Template:Snd27 January 1862) was an English educationalist, headmaster and later provost of Eton College.
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