The Odyssey by Homer
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ISBN: 9781853260254
Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 01 January 1998
Soft cover, 512 pages
With an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts, Royal Holloway, University of London.
Homer's great epic describes the many adventures of Odysseus, Greek warrior, as he strives over many years to return to his home island of Ithaca after the Trojan War. His colourful adventures, his endurance, his love for his wife and son have the same power to move and inspire readers today as they did in Archaic Greece, 2800 years ago.
This poem has been translated many times over the years, but Chapman's sinewy, gorgeous rendering (1616) stands in a class of its own. Chapman believed himself inspired by the spirit of Homer himself, and matches the breadth and power of the original with a complex and stunning idiom of his own. John Keats expressed his admiration for the resulting work in the famous sonnet, 'On first looking into Chapman's Homer': 'Much have I travelled in the realms of gold...'
This new Wordsworth edition of Chapman's Homer contains accessible annotation, and a detailed introduction that places his masterpiece in the context of his own day, and discusses its influences on later poets.
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- The Odyssey by Homer
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- Used
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- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1853260258
- ISBN 13
- 9781853260254
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- Wordsworth Editions
- Place of Publication
- United Kingdom
- This edition first published
- January 1, 2002
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