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Title

Homer in English / edited with an introduction and notes by George Steiner ; with the assistance of Aminadav Dykman.

Author

Homer

Publication

London ; New York : Penguin Books, 1996.

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Additional Authors

• Dykman, Aminadav.
• Steiner, George, 1929-2020

Description

xxxiv, 357 p.; 20 cm.

Summary

"'The Iliad and Odyssey,' writes Professor George Steiner, 'are perennially active in the pulse of the English languages, in the texts and contexts of Anglo-Saxon self-definition; these translations and variations on Homeric themes offer nothing less than 'a concise chronicle of English'." "From Lydgate's Troy Book, Chaucer's Troylus and Criseyde and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida to Pound's Cantos, Joyce's Ulysses and Derek Walcott's Omeros, Homer has been the most translated author and presence in our literature and languages (such as American and Afro-Caribbean). Homer has elicited a fantastic wealth and quality of response, from Hobbes to Gladstone, from T. E. Lawrence to Robert Graves. Homeric translations by Chapman, Dryden, Pope, Shelley and Christopher Logue are masterpieces in their own right. This superb selection assembles highlights and representative moments from six and a half centuries."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

• Penguin classics
• Penguin poets in translation

Uniform Title

• Penguin classics.
• Penguin poets in translation.
• Works. Selections. English

Alternative Title

Works.

Subject

• English poetry > Greek influences
• Epic poetry, English
• Epic poetry, Greek > Translations into English
• Homer > Adaptations
• Homer > Parodies, imitations, etc
• Homer > Translations into English

Genre/Form

• Adaptations.
• Epics (texts)
• Parodies, imitations, etc.
• Translations (form)
• Translations.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [352]-355).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• From Troylus and Criseyde / Geoffrey Chaucer -- from 'The Testament of Cresseid' / Robert Henryson -- from The Troy Book / John Lydgate -- from Tenne Bookes of the Iliades of Homer / Arthur Hall -- from Troilus and Cressida / William Shakespeare -- from Homer's Iliads / George Chapman -- from Homer's Odysses / George Chapman -- from Al the Hymnes of Homer / George Chapman -- from Homer's Iliads / Thomas Grantham -- from Homer's Iliads / John Ogilby -- from Homer's Odysses / John Ogilby -- from The Iliads and Odysses of Homer / Thomas Hobbes -- the Iliad, Books I and VI (fragment) from Fables Ancient and Modern / John Dryden -- 'Helen's Lamentation' / William Congreve -- from the Iliad, Book VI / Knightly Chetwood -- from the Iliad, Book XIV / Andrew Tooke -- from the Iliad, Book I / Arthur Mainwaring -- from The Iliad of Homer / Alexander Pope -- Homer's Odyssey / Alexander Pope -- Book IV, Agamemnon's fatal homecoming as told to Menelaus, II. 683-740 / Alexander Pope and Elijah Fenton -- Book V, Ulysses under way after leaving Calypso, II. 343-60 / Alexander Pope -- Book IX, Ulysses' foreboding in the land of the Cyclops, II. 248-67 / Alexander Pope -- Book XI, The Shade of Hercules in Hades, II. 741-74 / Alexander Pope and William Broome -- Book XIX, Eurycleia identifies Ulysses by his scar, II. 544-74 / Alexander Pope and Elijah Fenton -- Book XXI, Ulysses bends his bow, II. 438-64 / Alexander Pope
• Book XXIII, Ulysses recounts his adventures to Penelope, II. 321-70 / Alexander Pope and William Broome -- a specimen of the Iliad / Thomas Tickell -- from The Iliad of Homer / James Macpherson -- from The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer / William Cowper -- from A Burlesque Translation of Homer / Anonymous -- from The Adventures of Ulysses / Charles Lamb -- from The Iliad of Homer / T. S. Brandreth -- Two sonnets on Homer / John Keats -- from the Homeric Hymns / P. B. Shelley -- from The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Prose / Anonymous -- 'The Lotos-Eaters', 'Ulysses' and 'Achilles over the Trench' / Alfred Lord Tennyson -- from The Odyssey of Homer / William Sotheby -- from the Iliad, Book XXIV / J. G. Lockhart -- from Homeric Ballads / William Maginn -- from The Iliad of Homer / F. W. Newman -- from Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age / W. E. Gladstone -- from The Odyssey of Homer / P. S. Worsley -- from On Translating Homer / Matthew Arnold -- from The Iliad, or, Achilles' Wrath; At the Siege of Ilion / Thomas Starling Norgate -- from Homer's Iliad / The Earl of Derby -- from The Iliad of Homer / J. Henry Dart -- from Homer's Iliad / Edwin W. Simcox -- from The Odyssey of Homer / G. Musgrave -- from Translations into English and Latin / Charles Stuart Calverley -- from Homer's Iliad / James Inglis Cochrane -- from The Odyssey of Homer / G. W. Edgington -- from The Odyssey of Homer / W. Cullen Bryant -- from The Odyssey of Homer / Thomas A. Buckley
• From Homer's Iliad / John Benson Rose -- 'Penelope's Musings' / Jemimah Makepiece Sturt -- from The Odyssey of Homer / S. H. Butcher and A. Lang -- Complete Concordance to the Odyssey and the Hymns of Homer / Henry Dunbar -- from The Iliad of Homer / A. Lang, W. Leaf and E. Myers -- from The Odyssey of Homer / William Morris -- The Iliad of Homer with an Interlinear Translation on the Hamiltonian System as Improved by Thomas Clark / Thomas Clark -- from Development / Robert Browning -- from The Odyssey of Homer / George Herbert Palmer -- The Iliad of Homer / Samuel Butler -- from The Odyssey of Homer / Samuel Butler -- from The Odyssey / J. W. MacKail -- from Homer's Odyssey: A Line-for-Line Translation in the Metre of the Original / H. B. Cotterill -- from The Odyssey / A. T. Murray -- from The Wrath of Achilles / George Ernle -- from Ulysses / James Joyce -- from The Odyssey / Francis Caulfield -- from The Iliad / A. T. Murray -- Nausikaa / Annette Meakin -- from The Iliad of Homer, The First Twelve Staves / Maurice Hewlett -- from The Odyssey of Homer / Herbert Bates -- from A Draft of XXX Cantos / Ezra Pound -- from The Story of Odysseus / W. H. D. Rouse -- 'The Argonauts' / D. H. Lawrence -- 'Nearing Again the Legendary Isle' / C. Day-Lewis -- from The Homeric Hymns / A. S. Way -- from The Odyssey of Homer / T. E. Shaw -- from The Iliad of Homer / William Benjamin Smith and Walter Miller -- from The Odyssey / E. V. Rieu -- from The Iliad / E. V. Rieu
• From Homer's Odyssey / S. O. Andrew -- from The Odyssey, Translated in Selection / F. L. Lucas -- from The Iliad / F. L. Lucas -- from The Wrath of Achilles, The Iliad of Homer Shortened and in a New Translation / I. A. Richards -- from The Iliad / H. D. F. Kitto -- from The Iliad of Homer / Richmond Lattimore -- from The Odyssey of Homer / Richmond Lattimore -- 'The Shield of Achilles' / W. H. Auden -- from The Odyssey / Barbara Leonie Picard -- from The Anger of Achilles, Homer's Iliad / Robert Graves -- from The Odyssey of Homer / Ennis Rees -- 'The Wound' and 'Moly' / Thom Gunn -- from The Odyssey / Robert Fitzgerald -- from The Iliad / Robert Fitzgerald -- from Imitations / Robert Lowell -- from The Iliad / Christopher Logue -- from The Odyssey / Albert Cook -- 'The Greeks Retreat to the Ships', from Greek Literature, an Anthology / Edwin Morgan -- from The Secret Sea / Hugo Manning -- Ulysses Comes Back: Sketches for a Musical / Lawrence Durrell -- from Sing Me, Goddess, being the First Recitation of Homer's Iliad / M. L. West -- The Homeric Hymns / Thelma Sargent -- 'Penelope's Reply' / Sanford Pinsker -- from Homer, The Odyssey / Walter Shewring -- from Homer's Iliad / Denison Bingham Hull -- from The Iliad / Robert Fagles -- from The Odyssey of Homer / Allen Mandelbaum -- from Omeros / Derek Walcott -- from Gorse Fires / Michael Longley -- from 'Extract from The Wanderings of Odysseus' / Oliver Taplin -- 'Homeric' / Peter Reading -- from The Odyssey / William Logan.

ISBN

0140446214 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^96195511^

OCLC

34581406

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library