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The Iliad of Homer

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from: Book Jungle See Larger Image Amazon.com's Price: $24.45 as of 03/21/2010 15:12 EDT Used Price: $23.00 Third Party New Price: $24.45 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 930 EAN: 9781594626302 ISBN: 1594626308 Label: Book Jungle Manufacturer: Book Jungle Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 584 Publication Date: April 20, 2007 Publisher: Book Jungle Studio: Book Jungle Related Items: The Odyssey of Homer Virgil's Aeneid (Penguin Classics) Stranger in a Strange Land The Odyssey of Homer: As Translated from the Greek by Alexander Pope Chapman's Homer see more Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: This is Alexander Pope's translation of "The Iliad" (1715-20) into heroic couplets. Homer's tale of the Trojan war is a compassionate view of human life lived under the shadow of suffering and death in the face of an overwhelming and often uncaring divinity. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - A work of genius, though not strictly a work of Homer Pope's version of the Iliad is one of the master works of English literature, and I keep returning to it with enjoyment and gratitude. It is not, however, a translation in the commonly understood modern sense--certainly not a faithful attempt at representing what Homer was like as a writer, or what the original Iliad was like. This is inescapably Pope's Iliad: a neoclassical work that couldn't be more 18th century if it tried. Pope rearranged and liberally padded his Homeric framework, imposing ... Read More Rating: - It remains the Best Translation Why is this rip off so hard to find? Alexander Pope's translation of this epic masterpiece from 1725 is THE ONLY TRANSLATION THAT I CARE TO KNOW ABOUT Rating: - Why must an innocent bibliophile be ripped off to get definitive translation????!!!! This, the definitive translation of Homer's classical epic The Illiad is a rip off. It's really too bad because the other translations (yes, my friends, silly ignoramouses have actually tried to translate something that was made perfect by the greatest English poet) ARE CRAP! It's almost unbelievable that all the other sh!++y translations are easier to find than the definitive translation by the Great Alexander Pope (1688-1744). Rating: - Who cares what they say... it's the best translation. Alexander Pope was undoubtedly the most talented versifier ever to walk the English-speaking portions of this earth. Forget Shakespeare, forget Milton... they don't know anything about iambs compared to Pope. Once you've taken in the first 1000 couplets or so, you'll see what I mean. Plus, this is an excellent, faithful translation of Homer, no matter what the purists think. Sure, Rouse is great for prose, but if you want beauty and grandeur, Pope is your man. This book deserves a special place ... Read More Rating: - The Iliad of Homer, Translated by Alexander Pope The two classic verse (English) translations of Homer's Iliad & Odyssey are by George Chapman (1611) and Alexander Pope (1725). A classic prose translation of both works is the one by Lang, Leaf, and Myers (Iliad), and Butcher, Lang (Odyssey). A good, literal prose translation from the 1890's of the Odyssey is the George Herbert Palmer. Good literal, modern prose translations of both works are the ones by A. T. Murray. The better prose and verse translations of the latter half of the 20th century ... Read More see more

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