Introd.: Translation as parody.--Verbal and visual translation of myth: Neptune in Virgil, Rubens, Dryden.--The Theban eagle in English plumage.--Pope's Iliad for twentieth-century readers.--From the Iliad to the novel via The rape of the lock.--A poet's Odyssey.--Dryden's epic manner and Virgil.--The heresy of plot.--Poetic and dramatic design in versions and translations of Shakespeare.--Seven Agamemnons.
