Preface

Abstract

This new and revived volume of Delos is appearing after a hiatus of thirteen years. As of April 2015 the Harold P. Hanson Estate has turned over the editorship to me. I am no stranger to this enterprise, having been a guest-editor for volume 19–20 in 1997. Delos was founded as part of a generous grant by the Ford Foundation to the University of Texas in Austin in 1965. But only three issues—albeit rich and divers in content—appeared there in 1968–69. Next, Delos (re)appeared with eleven issues as a publication of The Center for World Literature at the University of Maryland, edited by Reed Whittemore in 1988-91. And from 1991 through 2003 under the editorship of Harold P. Hanson another eleven issues were published at the University of Florida. Because literary translation from any language into English is a vast field, a theme of Literature and Music was chosen for this year’s issue of Delos. The theme for 2017 is Literature and Image.