Chapmans Homer

Author : Homer
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781840221176
Total Pages : 982 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chapman's Homer written by Homer and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 2000 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homer bidding farewell to his wife, Odysseus bound to the mast, Penelope at the loom, Achilles dragging Hector's body round the walls of Troy - scenes from Homer have been portrayed in every generation. Chapman's translations are argued to be two of the liveliest and readable.

Author : Homer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chapman's Homer written by Homer and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Homer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chapman's Homer: The Odyssey & the lesser Homerica written by Homer and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Homer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691236259
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chapman's Homer written by Homer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Homer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chapman's Homer: The Odyssey & the lesser Homerica written by Homer and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Keats
Publisher : Clipper Audio
ISBN 13 : 9781471233494
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Realms of Gold written by John Keats and published by Clipper Audio. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keats' letters paint an unforgettably vivid and moving picture of CLIPPER the richly productive but also tragic final years of the poet's life. As he ponders on the nature of the writer's craft, he must first confront his brother's death from tuberculosis and then the imminent prospect of his own, tormented by the fear that he will not live to consummate his relationship with Fanny Brawne. This general selection also includes many of his finest poems, versions of which often appeared for the first time within the letters themselves.

Author : Robert S. Miola
Publisher : MHRA
ISBN 13 : 1781881189
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George Chapman: Homer's 'Iliad' written by Robert S. Miola and published by MHRA. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famously praised by John Keats for speaking ‘loud and bold’, Chapman’s Homer brought Greek poetry and civilization to life for centuries of readers. Many have praised its rough energy and creativity, the crashing power of the verses, its grim depiction of life and death in war. The companion to Gordon Kendal’s edition of Chapman’s Odyssey, this edition of his Iliad features a newly edited version of the 1611 printing (including all the translator’s combative notes and commentary) in modern spelling and punctuation. The introduction, “Looking into Chapman’s Homer,” explores the complicated history of revision behind the text, the intermediate Latin sources, and, most important, Chapman’s early modern reception of the Iliad, that is, the later political, cultural, social, literary, moral, and theological ideas that shape his reading of the ancient Greek text. The edition provides also full textual collations, lexical and explanatory notes, a glossary, bibliography, an appendix on Chapman’s contributions to the English language, and index. Like his great contemporary and rival, William Shakespeare, Chapman was a dramatist and one of the great wordsmiths of the Renaissance, a creator of the language that we speak and write today as Modern English. Chapman’s Iliad deploys the resources of this developing English language for stunning poetic effects; this raw and powerful version of Homer’s inspired song stands also as a masterpiece of English literature.

Author : Gordon Kendal
Publisher : MHRA
ISBN 13 : 1781881219
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George Chapman: Homer's 'Odyssey' written by Gordon Kendal and published by MHRA. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Times; color: #ffffff} For George Chapman (1559-1634) his translation of Homer was ‘the work that I was born to do’. The publication of his Iliad and Odyssey together in 1616 was a landmark in English literature, but until now there has been no edition which modernises his spelling and punctuation and also provides detailed help in grasping his often obscure language, and in understanding how and why he translated Homer in the particular way he did. This edition of the Odyssey, a companion to Robert Miola’s edition of the Iliad, aims to bring Chapman’s rendering alive for the modern reader. Its literary, philosophical, and religious context is explained in an Introduction and in footnotes, and side- and end-glosses clarify Chapman’s English. His Odyssey is not only a stylistic masterpiece of seventeenth-century English: it constitutes a profound and moving interpretation – still relevant after four hundred years – of Homer’s story of the suffering and grace implicit in the human condition. Through its teeming diversity of events, settings, and characters Homer and his first English translator explore the question of what it means to be human in a complex and threatening world.

Author : Susan J. Wolfson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521513413
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading John Keats written by Susan J. Wolfson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores John Keats's major works in the context of his reading and the world in which he shaped his career.

Author : William Logan
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231546513
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dickinson's Nerves, Frost's Woods written by William Logan and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Dickinson’s Nerves, Frost’s Woods, William Logan, the noted and often controversial critic of contemporary poetry, returns to some of the greatest poems in English literature. He reveals what we may not have seen before and what his critical eye can do with what he loves. In essays that pair different poems—“Ozymandias,” “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer,” “In a Station of the Metro,” “The Red Wheelbarrow,” “After great pain, a formal feeling comes,” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” among others—Logan reconciles history and poetry to provide new ways of reading poets ranging from Shakespeare and Shelley to Lowell and Heaney. In these striking essays, Logan presents the poetry of the past through the lens of the past, attempting to bring poems back to the world in which they were made. Logan’s criticism is informed by the material culture of that world, whether postal deliveries in Regency London, the Métro lighting in 1911 Paris, or the wheelbarrows used in 1923. Deeper knowledge of the poet’s daily existence lets us read old poems afresh, providing a new way of understanding poems now encrusted with commentary. Logan shows that criticism cannot just root blindly among the words of the poem but must live partly in a lost world, in the shadow of the poet’s life and the shadow of the age.