“This fascinating and wide-ranging collection of studies in the nature of literary translation and its art occasions intense and cogent theoretical discourse on what lies at the heart of literature itself. Poets of considerable learning and translators and scholars of literary gifts write knowingly and feelingly, and their essays constitute a major tribute to what is indeed not lost, but found, in translation.”

“This collection delights me for its exceptional avoidance of the usual languors ¾complaints and acknowledgments deferred, the resentments of a profession which regards itself as embattled ¾and for its inclusion of remarkable texts; the reader, who may be a translator as well but need not be, is offered a feast.”