The Odyssey
By Homer
Introduction by Seamus Heaney
Translated by Robert Fitzgerald
By Homer
Introduction by Seamus Heaney
Translated by Robert Fitzgerald
Part of Everyman's Library Classics Series
Category: Poetry | Classic Nonfiction
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$30.00
Nov 03, 1992 | ISBN 9780679410478
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Praise
“[Robert Fitzgerald’s translation is] a masterpiece . . . An Odyssey worthy of the original.” –The Nation
“[Fitzgerald’s Odyssey and Iliad] 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.” –The Yale Review
“[In] Robert Fitzgerald’s translation . . . there is no anxious straining after mighty effects, but rather a constant readiness for what the occasion demands, a kind of Odyssean adequacy to the task in hand, and this line-by-line vigilance builds up into a completely credible imagined world.”
–from the Introduction by Seamus Heaney
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