The Iliad - (Everyman's Library Classics) by Homer (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>In every century since the renaissance, English speakers have felt compelled to possess a translation written especially for their own time of this great epic poem, the earliest and most central literary text of Western culture. That need has been thoroughly met in our century by the distinguished poet and classicist Robert Fitzgerald, whose version of <i>The Iliad</i> does justice in every way to the fluent vigor and gravity of the Homeric original.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>'In Robert Fagles' beautifully rendered text, the Iliad overwhelms us afresh. The huge themes--godlike, yet utterly human--of savagery and calculation, of destiny defied, of triumph and grief compel our own humanity. Time after time, one pauses and re-reads before continuing. Fagles' voice is always that of a poet and scholar of our own age as he conveys the power of Homer. Robert Fagles and Bernard Knox are to be congratulated and praised on this admirable work.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Fitzgerald has solved virtually every problem that has plagued translators of Homer. The narrative runs, the dialogue speaks, the military action is clear, and the repetitive epithets become useful text rather than exotic relics." -<i>Atlantic Monthly </i> <p/>"Fitzgerald's swift rhythms, bright images, and superb English make Homer live as never before...This is for every reader in our time and possibly for all time."-<i>Library Journal </i> <p/>"[Fitzgerald's <i>Odyssey</i> and <i>Iliad</i>] open up once more the unique greatness of Homer's art at the level above the formula; yet at the same time they do not neglect the brilliant texture of Homeric verse at the level of the line and the phrase." -<i>The Yale Review<br></i><br>"What an age can read in Homer, what its translators can manage to say in his presence, is one gauge of its morale, one index to its system of exultations and reticences. The supple, the iridescent, the ironic, these modes are among our strengths, and among Mr. Fitzgerald's." -<i>National Review</i> <p/>With an Introduction by Gregory Nagy<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Homer was a Greek poet, recognized as the author of the great epics, <i>The Iliad</i>, the story of the siege of Troy, and <i>The Odyssey</i>, the tale of Ulysses's wanderings.
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