Natural Theology and Neo-Confucianism in Timothy Richard and Ren Tingxu’s Translation of Alexander Pope’s <i>An Essay on Man</i> by Dadui Yao

“…Ren rendered Pope’s heroic couplets into a quatrain-style Chinese poem. The term “Tianlun” (Heavenly Ethic) was derived from Young John Allen’s theory, which aimed to supplement Confucian ethics by illustrating the “man and heaven” (or “man and God”) relationship. …”
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The Conference of the Birds by Chad G. Lingwood

“…Nott, The Conference of the Birds (1954), which was prepared from Garcin de Tassy’s nineteenth-century French translation, Le Langage des oiseaux, and, as such, is obscured by an intervening third language; Afkham Darbandi and Dick Davis’ Penguin Classics edition The Conference of the Birds (1984), which represents the poem’s first complete English translation (minus the invocation and epilogue), is based on the oldest extant manuscripts, and is skillfully rendered into heroic couplets pleasingly faithful to the letter and spirit of `Attar’s allegory; and Peter Avery’s determinedly literal translation, The Speech of the Birds (1998), whose 560-page opus includes 120 pages of enriching endnotes on `Attar’s use of Qur’anic imagery and the hadith ...…”
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Byron’s early satires and the influence of Churchill by Bucknell, C

“…<p>Between March and June 1811, as he travelled in Greece and Malta, Byron wrote a fragmentary imitation in heroic couplets of the first lines of Horace’s Satire 1.4. …”