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Chapman's Homer / edited, with introduction and glossary by Allardyce Nicoll ; with a new preface by Garry Wills.
LIBRA - Special PA4025.A2 C5 1998 v.1
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Homer.
- Series:
- Bollingen series ; 41.
- Bollingen series ; 41
- Standardized Title:
- Works. English. 1998
- Language:
- English
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Subjects (All):
- Homer--Translations into English.
- Homer.
- Achilles (Mythological character).
- Epic poetry, Greek--Translations into English.
- Epic poetry, Greek.
- Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character)--Poetry.
- Odysseus.
- Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character).
- Achilles (Mythological character)--Poetry.
- Achilles.
- Trojan War--Poetry.
- Trojan War.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Translations.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First Princeton paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1998-2000.
- Summary:
- ""Chapman's Homer" provided for the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" exactly what the "King James Bible" (also published in 1611) did for the "Hebrew Bible" and the "New Testament" in English: it offered a stylistically vigorous and morally powerful translation that has influenced generations of subsequent readers, even as new versions have proliferated."--Jan M. Ziolkowski, Harvard University
- "Chapman's versions inspired English poets for centuries after his time. They rest on a minute and perceptive reading of the texts. And they retain their power to fascinate and provoke anyone interested in Homer and his afterlife, in Renaissance ideas about classical and modern poetry, or in the development of the language of English poetry."--Anthony T. Grafton, Princeton University
- Contents:
- V. 1. The Iliad
- v. 2. The Odyssey.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy incomplete: v.2 lacking.
- ISBN:
- 0691002363
- 9780691002361
- 0691048916
- 9780691048918
- OCLC:
- 39391198
- Online:
- Publisher description
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