This volume presents the original 1611 text of George Chapman's translation, tapping into the poetic consonance between the semi-divine heroism of the "Iliad"'s warriors and the cosmological symbols of Renaissance humanism.

Author: Homer

Publisher: Princeton University Press

ISBN: 0691002363

Category: Poetry

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This volume presents the original 1611 text of George Chapman's translation, tapping into the poetic consonance between the semi-divine heroism of the "Iliad"'s warriors and the cosmological symbols of Renaissance humanism.

Boone of Bond - street possess a very fine copy of this volume , which is
peculiarly interesting , not only from an autograph presentation Sonnet , but from
Chapman ' s having with his pen made some alterations in the portrait . I trust to
give the ...

Author: Homerus

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GEORGE CHAPMAN ON As ' bout the fly Menelaus * did inspire , HIS
TRANSLATION OF Juno ' s retreat , Achilles ' strange desire ;HOMER ' S WORKS
INTO But he , to his own sense doth him restore , ENGLISH METRE . * And
comments on ...

Author: George Chapman

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Homer. clear voice . John Keats , who , without Greek scholarship , drew
inspiration from Greek art , told in a well - known sonnet what he felt upon first
reading Chapman ' s Homer : “ Much have I travelled in the realms of gold , And
many ...

Author: Homer

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ISBN: PRNC:32101073497693

Category: Achilles (Greek mythology)

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Did we not know ' twas done by thee so well S . SHEPPARD . Thou makest
Homer Homer ' s self excel . ON FIRST LOOKING INTO ON MR . CHAPMAN ' S
INCOMPARCHAPMAN ' S HOMER . ABLE TRANSLATION OF HOMER ' S
WORKS .

Author: George Chapman

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Homer. is challenging , unique and beautiful . George DeF . Lord comments on
the ' extraordinary complexity of Homer ' s Odysseus ' , adding that ' no translator
has matched Homer in subtlety and richness , but Chapman ' s vision is so bold ...

Author: Homer

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions

ISBN: 1853260258

Category: Poetry

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A modern prose version of the classical epic relates the wanderings and homecoming of a Greek warrior and hero

The Iliads of HOMER , Prince of Poets , never before in any Language truly
translated , with a Comment on some of his chief ... Chapman ' s translation , with
all its defects , is often exceedingly Homeric , which Pope himself seldom
attained .

Author: Homerus

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The Odysseys of Homer , truly translated by George Chapman ; with Introduction
and Notes by Richard Hooper , M . A . 2 vols . fcap . 8vo , with frontispiece after
Pass , cloth . 128 1 857 3170 HOMER ' S Batrachomyomachia , Hymns and ...

Author: John Russell Smith

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ISBN: NYPL:33433067301550

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Daniel in ' A Defence of Ryme ( 1602 - 3 ) , George Chapman , a learned and
honest man . ' written when only a portion ... Chapman ' s of troubles ( 1605 ) was
published the comedy Homer has never been without admirers . Dry - of All Fools
 ...

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ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN ' S HOMER . * M UCH have I travell ' d in
the realms of gold , And many goodly states and kingdoms seen ; Round many
western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold . Oft of one wide
 ...

Author: John Keats

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ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN ' S HOMER . * IT . And many goodly states
and kingdoms seen ; Round many western islands have I been . Which bards in
fealty to Apollo hold . Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep - brow ...

Author: John Keats

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ISBN: UCSC:32106005475568

Category: Poets, English

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Done according to the Greek by GEORGE CHAPMAN ; with Introduction and
Notes by RICHARD HOOPER , M . A . “ The translation of Homer , published by
George Chap - ! " I have just finished Chapman ' s Homer . Did you ever man , is
one ...

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CHAPMAN ' S HOMER . 425 No man will say that there is weakness or flatness
here ; and , in respect of pith and muscle , Homer certainly has in this man met
his match . On the other hand , every reader who knows his Greek Homer , is well
 ...

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JOHN KEATS 1795 - 182 1 Autograph manuscripts of “ On First Looking into
Chapman ' s Homer " ( undated but written in October 1816 ) and “ The day is
gone and all its sweets are gone ” ( undated but probably written on 10 October
1819 ) .

Author: Verlyn Klinkenborg

Publisher: Courier Corporation

ISBN: 0486241254

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19th-century British culture in the autograph hand. Original manuscripts of Scott, Coleridge, Austen, Yeats, Joyce, etc. Commentary.

He ( Pope ) might have added , ” says Mr . Hallam , “ that Chapman ' s Translation
, with all its defects , is often exceedingly Homeric ; a praise which Pope himself
seldom attained . Chapman deals abundantly in compound epithets , some of ...

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On the other hand , every reader who knows his Greek Homer , is well aware that
there are things in this passage which are not in the original , and may feel
inclined to apply to Chapman ' s style of translation what Dryden said of Cowley '
s ...

Author: John Stuart Blackie

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ISBN: HARVARD:HW23P4

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This interest in Chapman ' s Homer was not restricted to the two friends . The folio
edition being examined by Keats and Clarke belonged to Thomas Alsager , Hunt
' s comrade and financial editor of the Times ; Hunt and Lamb were admirers of ...

Author: Jeffrey N. Cox

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 0521631009

Category: Literary Criticism

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A 1999 study of the work of Romantic poets in the circle known as the 'Cockney School'.

With Coloured Illustrations . SECOND EDITION OF CHAPMAN ' S HOMER ' S
ILIAD . ROUTLEDGE ' S 28 . JUVENILES .Now ready , 2 vols . fcap . 8vo .
elegantly printed , Portrait of Chapman , and Frontispiece , cloth , 128 . New
Volumes .

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This was not so much a literal translation of the Greek , as a great Elizabethan
poem , inspired by Homer . It has Homer ' s fire , but not his simplicity ; the energy
of Chapman ' s fancy kindling him to run beyond his text into all manner of figures
 ...

Author: Henry Augustin Beers

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ISBN: HARVARD:32044102848355

Category: English Literature

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Chapman was carried away by the current of the Homeric verse , and this is his
great saving merit . ... The crudities , the inappropriate quaintnesses of Chapman
' s Homer , are visible enough , when we read only a page or two , here and ...

Author: Thomas Humphry Ward

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ISBN: HARVARD:HWPMDB

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