10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WARDOUR STREET ENGLISH»
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1
The Translator's Invisibility: A History of Translation
In 1889 the Quarterly Review likewise attacked Morris's Aeneid (1875) because
of “the sense of incongruity inspired by such Wardour-Street English as eyen and
clepe” (Faulkner 1973: 28, n. 81). Here the “centre” is also identified as current ...
2
The Poetry of Translation: From Chaucer & Petrarch to Homer ...
Pound's turn to archaism in this last version of 'Chi è questa' owes something to
the 'Wardour Street English' typical of Victorian translations from the classics (
shops in Wardour Street sold antique and reproduction furniture). F. W. Newman,
for ...
... “Oh, this is a horrid real history!” Let this be a warning to historical novelists. As
to poets, if the public will not read their poems, is it likely that they will be read
when expressed in Wardour Street English, Wardour Street spelling, and
attributed ...
James Anson Farrer, José Moll Marqués, 1969
4
Against The Age (Routledge Revivals): An Introduction to ...
... of Virgil, criticised Morris's on the grounds of its unsuitable 'old-world tone' and '
the sense of incongruity inspired by such Wardour—Street English as eyen and
chepe'.9 (Wardour Street was noted for the production of sham antique furniture.)
...
5
The Chambers Dictionary
Wardian wor'di-jn, adj denoting a kind of glass case for transporting delicate fems
and other such plants or for growing them in indoors. [Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward (
1791-1868), the inventor] wardmote. See under ward. Wardour Street English ...
6
A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional
English
But H. errs, I believe: he should mean half-a-crown, for tusheroon and its C.20 var
. tossaroon (2s. 6d.) are manifest corruptions of Lingua Franca madza caroon.
tulhery. Deliberate archaism or 'Wardour Street English': since late 1940s. (P.B: ...
... and affected by many English writers '; it might have gone further, and said “'
affected ” in any English writer'; such things. are antiquarian rubbish, Wardour-
Street English. Why not (as our imagined intelligent reader asked)—why not
before, ...
8
Medieval Herbal Remedies: The Old
English Herbarium and ...
discusses the Herbarium and its fate after being lifted from the oblivion of
manuscript archives and translated into Wardour Street English, then published
with prefaces destined—together with the style of translation—to prejudice the
reception ...
9
Cobbett's Political Register
The four first Numbers of the present volume of the Register have In en re printed,
and are now on sale at No. 3-t, Wardour Street. ENGLISH JURYMEN. On their
Duties an Trials for criminal Libel. fourth Humpstead, Lo** Island 91 It Not. 181*.
10
Samuel Butler, Victorian Against the Grain: A Critical Overview
11 For Butler's discussion of styles of translation (including his famous
comparison between the 'Wardour Street English' of Butcher and Lang's version
and the 'Tottenham Court Road' style of his own), see Authoress, 7; for
Nausicaa's address ...
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Now, I knew the standard explanation for why 'Wardour Street English' is meant to mean affected antiquity. It's that Wardour Street was a centre of the antiques ... «Spectator.co.uk, Jan 13»
