Chapman's Homer
The Iliad
(Sprache: Englisch)
George Chapman's translations of Homer are the most famous in the English language. Keats immortalized the work of the Renaissance dramatist and poet in the sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer." Swinburne praised the translations for their...
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George Chapman's translations of Homer are the most famous in the English language. Keats immortalized the work of the Renaissance dramatist and poet in the sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer." Swinburne praised the translations for their "romantic and sometimes barbaric grandeur," their "freshness, strength, and inextinguishable fire." The great critic George Saintsbury (1845-1933) wrote: "For more than two centuries they were the resort of all who, unable to read Greek, wished to know what Greek was. Chapman is far nearer Homer than any modern translator in any modern language."This volume presents the original (1611) text of Chapman's translation of the Iliad, making only a small number of modifications to punctuation and wording where they might confuse the modern reader. The editor, Allardyce Nicoll, provides an introduction and a glossary. Garry Wills contributes a preface, in which he explains how Chapman tapped into the poetic consonance between the semi-divine heroism of the Iliad's warriors and the cosmological symbols of Renaissance humanism.
Autoren-Porträt von Homer
Homer is both a shadowy figure and the generally acknowledged supreme genius of Western literature. No record of his life survives. Tradition places him some time in the 9th or 8th centuries BCE, and attributes to him Iliad, Odyssey, thirty-three Hymns, and a number of lesser works.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Homer
- 644 Seiten, Maße: 15,6 x 23,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Allardyce Nicoll
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- ISBN-10: 0691002363
- ISBN-13: 9780691002361
- Erscheinungsdatum: 13.12.1998
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Englisch
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Nicoll's gently modernised edition of Chapman's Homer [is] a work to be admired, bought, even read right through... This cheap reprint of a scarce and very good edition of a great work is a thing to be welcomed. -- Colin Burrow London Review of Books
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