Pope's Iliad: A Selection With Commentary

Felicity Rosslyn [Alexander Pope]

ISBN 10: 0862920493 / ISBN 13: 9780862920494

Edité par Bristol Classical Press [Duckworths], London, 2002

A propos de cet article

254 pages (xxvi, 228); publisher's white and black pictorial card covers: Very Good, no marks of previous ownership. Pictures show this actual book. UK orders are post-free.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Pope's Iliad: A Selection With Commentary
• Éditeur: Bristol Classical Press [Duckworths], London
• Date de parution: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0862920493
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780862920494
• Reliure: Softcover/Paperback
• Édition: 2nd Edition.
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Academic Books
  • Poetry
  • Fiction and some other creative writing.

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Synopsis

This volume presents a selection from Pope's celebrated translation of Homer's Iliad, edited and arranged so as to concentrate on the central core of the story and thus to be readable as a continuous narrative. Also included is a section of the best of Pope's notes to his own translation;these illuminate his principles as a translator and transmit his intelligent and penetrating assessments of the Iliad's poetic qualities. It will enable students of English literature to sample a neglected poem written by Pope at the height of his powers, once thought to contain some of his finest writing and deepest poetic thoughts about Man and Nature. Students of the Classics, on the other hand, will be able to study in detail the response of one of its most distinguished admirers to the greatest poem of ancient Greece. Felicity Rosslyn's introduction discusses the main themes of the poem and establishes Pope's unique qualifications as a translator of Homer.

À propos de l?auteur

Homer is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest of ancient Greek epic poets. These epics representthe beginning of the Western canon, and have had an enormous influence on the history of literature. Homer is known only as theauthor of the The Iliad and The Odyssey, the two epic poems of theTrojan War and its aftermath that mark the birth of Western culture. Nothing isknown of his life.