Milton in Translation

• Part I Approaches


• 1: Angelica Duran and Islam Issa: Introduction: From 'Cambalu' to 'El Dorado'


• 2: Thomas N. Corns: Milton's Global Reach


• 3: Beverley Sherry: Lost and Regained in Translation: The Sound of Paradise Lost


• Part II Influential Translations


• 4: Aaron Shapiro: 'Levelling the Sublime': Translating Paradise Lost into English in the Eighteenth Century


• 5: Estelle Haan: 'Translated Verse': Milton's Latin Poetry in the Long Eighteenth Century


• 6: Estelle Haan: 'Latinizing' Milton: Paradise Lost, Latinitas, and the Long Eighteenth Century


• 7: Curtis Whitaker: Domesticating and Foreignizing the Sublime: Paradise Lost in German


• 8: Christophe Tournu: 'The French Connection' among French Translations of Milton and within du Bocage's Paradis terrestre


• Part III Western European and Latin American Translations


• 9: Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen: Paradise Lost in Dutch, 1728-2003: Form, Politics, Religion


• 10: Anne Lange: A Vision in Times of Need: Milton in Estonia


• 11: David Robertson: Traces of the Birth of the State of Finland in Jylhä's Translation of Paradise Lost


• 12: Ástráður Eysteinsson: Iceland's Milton: On Jón Þorláksson's Translation of Paradise Lost


• 13: Daniele Borgogni: 'Censur'd to Be Much Inferiour': Paradise Lost and Regained in Italian


• 14: Hélio J.S. Alves: Milton in Portuguese: A Story in Blank Verse


• 15: Angelica Duran: Paradise Lost in Spanish Translation and as World Literature


• 16: Mario Murgia: Either in Prose or Rhyme: Translating Milton in(to) Latin America


• Part IV Central and Eastern European Translations


• 17: Alexander Shurbanov: The Quest for the Right Accent: Milton in Bulgarian Translation

Angelica Duran is Professor at Purdue University, where she has been on the English and Comparative Literature faculties since earning her PhD in English Literature from Stanford in 2000. She served as Purdue's Director of Religious Studies from 2009 to 2013. Her monographs, edited and co-edited volumes, journal articles, and scholarly chapters are anchored in early modern English literature and range from Anglo-Hispanic Comparative Literature to Disability Studies. She is on the Executive Committee (2012-21) of the Milton Society of America and the editorial board of Milton Quarterly.

Islam Issa is Lecturer in English Literature at Birmingham City University. He has published on the reception of Milton in the Arab world, including an award-winning census of Arabic translations of Milton. He has a practical understanding of translation, having worked as a simultaneous interpreter of Arabic to English, interpreting for a range of high-profile figures. In 2009, he was a Research Consultant for the BBC's Poetry Season documentary about Milton, providing insight into Islamic responses to Paradise Lost. His book, Milton in the Arab-Muslim World, is the first full-length study of Milton in the region, and he is also translating and editing the first Arabic edition of Milton's sonnets.

Jonathan R. Olson is an Honorary Fellow in the Department of English at the University of Liverpool. His research focuses on early modern English literature, book history, and cinema. He has taught literature and film as Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Liverpool and as Visiting Assistant Professor at Biola University, and held a Mellon Visiting Research Fellowship at the University of Warwick and the Newberry Library. He has held bibliographical fellowships at the Beinecke, Clark, Houghton, and Huntington Libraries for research on his current book project, Selling an English Canon: Literary Publishing, 1640-1710. He contributed a chapter to The Cinema of Christopher Nolan (2015).

Winner of the Milton Society of America's Irene Samuel Memorial Award (2017)