The Odyssey

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Buch | Softcover
512 Seiten
1992
Wordsworth Editions Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-85326-025-4 (ISBN)

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The Odyssey -  Homer
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Describes the adventures of Odysseus, Greek warrior, as he strives to return to his home island of Ithaca after the Trojan War. This poem also describes his endurance, his love for his wife and son.
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.
Erscheint lt. Verlag 5.5.1992
Reihe/Serie Wordsworth Classics
Einführung Adam Roberts
Mitarbeit Herausgeber (Serie): Dr Keith Carabine
Verlagsort Herts
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Gewicht 317 g
Einbandart Paperback
Themenwelt Literatur Essays / Feuilleton
Literatur Zweisprachige Ausgaben Deutsch / Englisch
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-85326-025-8 / 1853260258
ISBN-13 978-1-85326-025-4 / 9781853260254
Zustand Neuware
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