The 19th century brought new standards of accuracy and style. In regard to accuracy, observes J.M. Cohen, the policy became "the text, the whole text, and nothing but the text", except for any bawdy passages and the addition of copious explanatory footnotes. In regard to style, the Victorians' aim, achieved through far-reaching metaphrase (literality) or pseudo-metaphrase, was to constantly remind readers that they were reading a foreign classic. An exception was the outstanding translation in this period, Edward FitzGerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1859), which achieved its Oriental flavor largely by using Persian names and discreet Biblical echoes and actually drew little of its material from the Persian original. COUNT 5
QSN1 What new standards of translation came with the 19th century? ANS1 accuracy and style QSN2 Who observed that the policy became "the text, the whole text, and nothing but the text"? ANS2 J.M. Cohen QSN3 What sort of passages were still left out of the supposed "whole" text? ANS3 bawdy QSN4 What did the Victorians aim to remind the reader of their translations? ANS4 that they were reading a foreign classic QSN5 How did the translation of Rubaiyat achieve an Oriental flavor? ANS5 by using Persian names and discreet Biblical echoes