Studies in the Translations of Juan Ramón and Zenobia Jiménez

Charlotte Ward is a professor at the University of Puerto Rico. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in English and comparative literature of the medieval period. Her publications include Ezra Pound, Forked Branches: Translations of Medieval Poems (1985), Pound’s Translations of Arnaut Daniel (1991), as well as many articles. Grants from Swiss Universities, Phi Beta Kappa, Rotary International, Wellesley College Workman, Newnham College Cambridge, Sir John Williams University of Wales, the Radcliffe Institute, the Medieval Academy of America, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Andrew W. Mellon have supported her research.

Author’s Note – Acknowledgments – Introduction – Juan Ramón before Zenobia: Translation and Imitation of French Symbolist Literature – Translation as Courtship: The Shakespearean Sonnets – A Turning Point in Life and Art: Diario de un poeta recién casado – Grappling with Anglo-Irish: Synge’s Riders to the Sea – Tagore in Spanish: A Legacy of Three Nobel Laureates – Tagore’s Plays by Other Translators as Adapted in Spanish – New Genres Introduced to India: Short Stories and Aphorisms – The Outbreak of the Spanish Civil War and Exile – Posthumous Translations – Conclusion – Bibliography – Index.