The Odyssey

Informationen zum Autor Homer is a much-debated figure traditionally considered to have composed the two great oral poems The Odyssey and The Iliad in eighth or seventh-century-BC Greece Klappentext Homer's Odyssey is one of the supreme masterpieces of Western literature. Of this much acclaimed translation by Robert Fitzgerald, George Steiner has written, 'Fitzgerald is taking his place beside Chapman and Pope in the unbroken lineage of English Homeric translations...it has an economy and soar of a poet'. Introduced by Seamus Heaney Zusammenfassung Homer's Odyssey is one of the supreme masterpieces of Western literature. Of this much acclaimed translation by Robert Fitzgerald, George Steiner has written, 'Fitzgerald is taking his place beside Chapman and Pope in the unbroken lineage of English Homeric translations...it has an economy and soar of a poet'. Introduced by Seamus Heaney

Product details

• Authors: Homer
• Assisted by: Robert Fitzgerald (Translation)
• Publisher: Everyman's Library UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.10.1992
• EAN: 9781857150940
• ISBN: 978-1-85715-094-0
• No. of pages: 528
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 210 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / General, Poetry by individual poets, Poetry / poems by individual poets