The best poetic version of The Odyssey to have appeared this century - Hugh Lloyd-Jones
Homer is a much-debated figure traditionally considered to have
composed the two great oral poems The Odyssey and The Iliad in
eighth or seventh-century-BC Greece.
Robert Fitzgerald was Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory
Emeritus at Harvard University.He was a member of the National
Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Chancellor of the Academy of
American Poets.He published four volumes of his own verse during
his lifetime.His translations of The Odyssey and The Iliad, and of
Virgil's Aeniad, won him many honours and are universally
acknowledged to be among the finest of their kind this century. He
died in 1985.
Homer's Odyssey is still enchanting readers after thousands of
years
*Guardian*
Surely the best and truest Odyssey in the English language
*Herald Tribune*
Fitzgerald is taking his place beside Chapman and Pope in the
unbroken lineage of English Homeric translations...it has the
economy and soar of a poet
*George Steiner*
A strong salty flavour of its own. And it makes you see things
*C.S. Lewis*
The Homeric poems are interesting...because of the way in which
they present human shocks and surprises... It is the surprising
twist that war brings to the domestic...which makes Homer
repeatedly shocking
*London Review of Books*
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