Emily Wilson
· 51 min · Episode 1
Episode Emily Wilson
Translator extraordinaire Emily Wilson goes deep on everything from proto-YA novels to John Milton. Her latest book is Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea. Support us on Patreon!
Books That Made Emily Wilson:
• Dogsbody, Diana Wynne Jones • The Aspern Papers, Henry James • Paradise Lost, John Milton
Also discussed!
• Eugene Onegin, Alexander Pushkin, Tranlsated by Vladimir Nabokov • “Problems of Translation: Onegin in English,” Vladimir Nabokov • “On Translating ‘Eugene Onegin,” Vladimir Nabokov • Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov • Middlemarch, George Eliot • The Wings of the Dove, Henry James • Tolstoy: A Biography, A.N. Wilson • Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat, Bee Wilson • Mocked with Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton, Emily R. Wilson • Areopagitica and Other Writings, John Milton • The Aeneid, translated by Scott McGill and Susannah Wright
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Links in the notes 17
- https://www.strandbooks.com/crossing-the-wine-dark-sea-journeys-through-ancient-literature-9781324099406.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com
- https://www.patreon.com/cw/BooksThatMadeMe
- https://www.strandbooks.com/dogsbody-9780142420133.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com
- https://www.strandbooks.com/the-aspern-papers-and-other-stories-oxford-world-s-classics-9780199639878.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com
- https://www.strandbooks.com/paradise-lost-9780192833198.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com
- https://www.strandbooks.com/eugene-onegin-a-novel-in-verse-in-two-volumes-9780691018379.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com
- https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.7208/9780226184821-014/pdf?licenseType=restricted
- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1955/01/08/on-translating-eugene-onegin?utm_source=chatgpt.com
- https://www.strandbooks.com/pale-fire-9780679723424.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com
- https://www.strandbooks.com/middlemarch-9780679783312.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com
- https://www.strandbooks.com/the-wings-of-the-dove-9781593082963.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com
- https://www.strandbooks.com/tolstoy-a-biography-9780393321227.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com
- https://www.strandbooks.com/consider-the-fork-a-history-of-how-we-cook-and-eat-9780465021765.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com
- https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/3414/mocked-death?utm_source=chatgpt.com
- https://www.strandbooks.com/areopagitica-and-other-writings-penguin-classics-9780140439069.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com
- https://www.strandbooks.com/the-aeneid-9781324096436.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com
- https://acast.com/privacy
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