British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences

10.30

Registration and Coffee

11.00

First Session: Dryden's translations in context
Chair: Professor Blair Worden, FBA, University of Oxford

Paper 1: Professor James Winn (Boston University): 'Thy wars brought nothing about': The Critique of Military Heroism in the later Dryden [ABSTRACT]
Paper 2: Dr Abigail Williams (University of Oxford): The politics of Providence in Dryden's Fables [ABSTRACT]
Paper 3: Dr Adam Rounce (University of Keele): The reception of Dryden's translations in the eighteenth century [ABSTRACT]

Discussion

1.00

Lunch

2.00

Second Session: Dryden's Virgil
Chair: Dr Paulina Kewes, Jesus College, Oxford

Paper 4: Dr Robin Sowerby (University of Stirling): The aesthetics of Dryden's Virgilian translations [ABSTRACT]
Paper 5: Professor Richard Jenkyns (University of Oxford): Dryden's Virgil in a comparative light [ABSTRACT]

Discussion

3.30

Tea

4.00

Third Session: Dryden's Fables
Chair: Dr Sarah Brown, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge

Paper 6: Professor Charles Martindale (University of Bristol): Dryden's Ovid, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Aesthetic Translation [ABSTRACT]
Paper 7: Dr Penelope Wilson (University of Durham): Dryden's translation of Homer [ABSTRACT]
Paper 8: Professor Helen Cooper (University of Cambridge): Dryden's translations from Chaucer [ABSTRACT]

Discussion

Concluding remarks from Professor David Hopkins (University of Bristol)

6.00

Drinks