Homer in English - Brossura

Steiner, George

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0140446214 ISBN 13: 9780140446210

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 1996

Riassunto

'The Iliad and Odyssey,' writes Professor George Steiner, 'are perennially active in the pulse of the English languages, in the texts and contexts of Anglo-Saxon self-definition; these translations and variations on Homeric themes offer nothing less than 'a concise chronicle of English'.
From Lydgate's Troy Book, Chaucer's Troylus and Criseyde and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida to Pound's Cantos, Joyce's Ulysses and Derek Walcott's Omeros, Homer has been the most translated author and presence in our literature and languages (such as American and Afro-Caribbean). Homer has elicited a fantastic wealth and quality of response, from Hobbes to Gladstone, from T. E. Lawrence to Robert Graves. Homeric translations by Chapman, Dryden, Pope, Shelley and Christopher Logue are masterpieces in their own right. This superb selection assembles highlights and representative moments from six and a half centuries.

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Book by Homer

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• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0140446214
• ISBN 13: 9780140446210
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 400