The Odyssey
The Fitzgerald Translation
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3.0 • 2 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Robert Fitzgerald's translation of Homer's Odyssey is the best and best-loved modern translation of the greatest of all epic poems.
Since 1961, this Odyssey has sold more than two million copies, and it is the standard translation for three generations of students and poets. Farrar, Straus and Giroux is delighted to publish a new edition of this classic work. Fitzgerald's supple verse is ideally suited to the story of Odysseus' long journey back to his wife and home after the Trojan War. Homer's tale of love, adventure, food and drink, sensual pleasure, and mortal danger reaches the English-language reader in all its glory.
Of the many translations published since World War II, only Fitzgerald's has won admiration as a great poem in English. The noted classicist D. S. Carne-Ross explains the many aspects of its artistry in his Introduction, written especially for this new edition.
Winner of the Bollingen Prize
Customer Reviews
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Robert Fitzgerald translates the odyssey in an excellent way, and I have read the Aeneid Also translated by him and it is a superb work. However I would like to see the reference numbers on the side of the pages to be included and to be accurate.
thank you very much it is overall done great