The Iliad
Homer
Fitzgerald, Robert (TRN)
Fitzgerald, Robert
Hardcover
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BOOK SUMMARY
In every century since the renaissance, English speakers have felt compelled to possess a translation written especially for their own time of this great epic poem, the earliest and most central literary text of Western culture. That need has been thoroug
BOOK SYNOPSIS
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In every century since the renaissance, English speakers have felt compelled to possess a translation written especially for their own time of this great epic poem, the earliest and most central literary text of Western culture. That need has been thoroughly met in our century by the distinguished poet and classicist Robert Fitzgerald, whose version of The Iliad does justice in every way to the fluent vigor and gravity of the Homeric original.
BOOK REVIEWS
Fitzgerald has solved virtually every problem that has plagued translators of Homer. The narrative runs, the dialogue speaks, the military action is clear, and the repetitive epithets become useful text rather than exotic relics. Atlantic Monthly
Fitzgeralds swift rhythms, bright images, and superb English make Homer live as never beforeThis is for every reader in our time and possibly for all time.Library Journal
[Fitzgeralds Odyssey and Iliad] open up once more the unique greatness of Homers art at the level above the formula; yet at the same time they do not neglect the brilliant texture of Homeric verse at the level of the line and the phrase. The Yale Review
What an age can read in Homer, what its translators can manage to say in his presence, is one gauge of its morale, one index to its system of exultations and reticences. The supple, the iridescent, the ironic, these modes are among our strengths, and among Mr. Fitzgeralds. National Review
With an Introduction by Gregory Nagy
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0679410759
ISBN(13-digit): 9780679410751
Copyright: 1992
Dewey Decimal: 883/.01
Library of Congress: 91053222
Book Publisher: Random House Inc
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 594
Paper Weight (lb): 1.4
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