Alexander Pope
1) The Odyssey
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"When Robert Fagles' translation of the Iliad was published in 1990, critics and scholars alike hailed it as a masterpiece." "Now Robert Fagles presents us with the Odyssey, Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem, recounting the arduous wanderings of Odysseus during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca, after the Trojan War. If the Iliad is the world's greatest war story, then the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey...
2) The Iliad
Author
Language
English
Description
When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017--revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was "fresh, unpretentious and lean" (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)--critics lauded it as "a revelation" (Susan Chira, New York Times) and "a cultural landmark" (Charlotte Higgins, Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of Homer's other...
3) Pope: poems
Author
Publisher
Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 17 cm
Language
English
Description
"A selection of the greatest works of the eighteenth-century English poet Alexander Pope, selected by Claude Rawson"--
Author
Series
Modern Library college editions volume T49
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
[1951]
Physical Desc
xxxiii, 388 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
