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The Odyssey (Paperback, Reissue)
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The Odyssey (Paperback, Reissue)
Series: Wordsworth Classics
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Loot Price R124
Discovery Miles 1 240
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With an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts, Royal Holloway,
University of London. Homer's great epic describes the many
adventures of Odysseus, Greek warrior, as he strives over many
years to return to his home island of Ithaca after the Trojan War.
His colourful adventures, his endurance, his love for his wife and
son have the same power to move and inspire readers today as they
did in Archaic Greece, 2800 years ago. This poem has been
translated many times over the years, but Chapman's sinewy,
gorgeous rendering (1616) stands in a class of its own. Chapman
believed himself inspired by the spirit of Homer himself, and
matches the breadth and power of the original with a complex and
stunning idiom of his own. John Keats expressed his admiration for
the resulting work in the famous sonnet, 'On first looking into
Chapman's Homer': 'Much have I travelled in the realms of gold...'
This new Wordsworth edition of Chapman's Homer contains accessible
annotation, and a detailed introduction that places his masterpiece
in the context of his own day, and discusses its influences on
later poets.
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