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Chapman's Homer - (Bollingen) (Paperback)

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Highlights

  • George Chapman's translations of Homer are the most famous in the English language.
  • Author(s): Homer
  • 648 Pages
  • Poetry, Ancient & Classical
  • Series Name: Bollingen

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About the Book



This volume presents the original 1611 text of George Chapman's translation, tapping into the poetic consonance between the semi-divine heroism of the "Iliad"'s warriors and the cosmological symbols of Renaissance humanism.



Book Synopsis



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.



From the Back Cover



"Oft of one wide expanse had I been told

That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne;

Yet did I never breathe its pure serene

Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold."--John Keats

"Chapman's Homer provided for the Iliad and the Odyssey exactly what the King James Bible (also published in 1611) did for the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament in English: it offered a stylistically vigorous and morally powerful translation that has influenced generations of subsequent readers, even as new versions have proliferated."--Jan M. Ziolkowski, Harvard University

"Chapman's versions inspired English poets for centuries after his time. They rest on a minute and perceptive reading of the texts. And they retain their power to fascinate and provoke anyone interested in Homer and his afterlife, in Renaissance ideas about classical and modern poetry, or in the development of the language of English poetry."--Anthony T. Grafton, Princeton University



Review Quotes




"Nicoll's gently modernised edition of Chapman's Homer [is] a work to be admired, bought, even read right through. . . . This cheap reprint of a scarce and very good edition of a great work is a thing to be welcomed."---Colin Burrow, London Review of Books
Dimensions (Overall): 9.24 Inches (H) x 6.13 Inches (W) x 1.36 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.92 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 648
Genre: Poetry
Sub-Genre: Ancient & Classical
Series Title: Bollingen
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Homer
Language: English
Street Date: December 13, 1998
TCIN: 87269919
UPC: 9780691002361
Item Number (DPCI): 247-00-3418
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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