The Odyssey

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David Campbell, 1992 - Epic literature - 509 pages

Homer's Odyssey is one of the supreme masterpieces of Western literature. Of this much acclaimed translation by Robert Fitzgerald, George Steiner has written, 'Fitzgerald is taking his place beside Chapman and Pope in the unbroken lineage of English Homeric translations...it has an economy and soar of a poet'.
Introduced by Seamus Heaney

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The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation
Homer
Limited preview - 1998
The Odyssey, Volume 2
Homer
Snippet view - 1961
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Homer
Snippet view - 1961
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About the author (1992)

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

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Odyssey
Everyman's Library Classics Series
Volume 94 of Everyman's library
The Millennium library
AuthorHomer
Translated byRobert Fitzgerald
ContributorSeamus Heaney
Editionillustrated, reprint, revised
PublisherDavid Campbell, 1992
ISBN1857150945, 9781857150940
Length509 pages
  
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