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Chapman's Homer: The Iliad
by Homer
Binding: Paperback, 1st Princeton Pbk. E edition, 741 pages
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Weight: 1.75 pound
Dimension: H: 1.4 x L: 9 x W: 6.5 inches
ISBN 10: 0691002363
ISBN 13: 9780691002361
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George Chapman's translations of Homer are the most famous in the English language. Keats immortalized the work of the Renaissance dramatist and poet in the sonnet 'On First Looking into Chapman's Homer.' Swinburne praised the translations for their 'romantic and sometimes barbaric grandeur,' their 'freshness, strength, and inextinguishable fire.' The great critic George Saintsbury (1845 1933) wrote: 'For more than two centuries they were the resort of all who, unable to read Greek, wished to know what Greek was. Chapman is far nearer Homer than any modern translator in any modern language.'
This volume presents the original (1611) text of Chapman's translation of the Iliad, making only a small number of modifications to punctuation and wording where they might confuse the modern reader. The editor, Allardyce Nicoll, provides an introduction and a glossary. Garry Wills contributes a preface, in which he explains how Chapman tapped into the poetic consonance between the semi divine heroism of the Iliad's warriors and the cosmological symbols of Renaissance humanism.

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