1. The translation must render the words of the original.
2. The translation must render the ideas of the original.
3. The translation should be read as the original.
4. The translation should be read as a translation.
5. The translation should reflect the style of the original.
6. The translation should be written in the style of the translation.
7. The translation should be read as a work contemporary to the original.
8. The translation should be read as a work contemporary to the translator.
9. Additions and deletions are permissible in translation.
10. Nothing should be added to, or deleted from, the original.
11. Poems should be translated in prose.
12. Poems should be translated in verse.

T.H. Savory, 1957

Readings:

Walter Benjamin, The Task of the Translator in Venuti, Translation Studies Reader;

Jose Ortega y Gasset, The Misery and the Splendor of Translation in Venuti, Translation Studies Reader;