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‎On Translating Homer. Three Lectures given at Oxford. - [THE MOST IMPORTANT WORK ON TRANSLATING HOMER]‎

‎London, 1861. Small 8vo. Original green full cloth with blondstamped boards and gilt lettering to spine. Corners bumped, upper capital worn, and gilding on spine very faded. Binding slightly dusty, but overall a very nice copy, fine and clean. (4), 104 pp. + publisher'scatalogue, 24 pp.‎

‎The uncommon first printing of Arnold's groundbreaking work on translating Homer, which constitutes the most important work in the history of translation-theory of the Homeric corpus. The work revolutionized the understanding of Homer in general, of the Homeric language and all following efforts to translate the Odyssey and the Iliad. ""The best-known commentary on how the Homeric text should be translated was written by the Victorian poet and literary and social critic Matthew Arnold in 1861, with many subsequent editions and reprintings. ""His lectures on translating Homer were the first adequate estimate, at least in English, of the literary qualities of the ""Iliad"" and ""Odyssey"" and did much to destroy the notion of a native genius or inspired folk-poet. Homer was now seen to be a conscious artist and took his place once and for all as the chief poet of antiquity, as Dante was of the Middle Ages and Shakespeare of modern times."" In his book Arnold reviewed most of the existing English translations … From this review and his own observations he extrapolated several rules for translating Homer. First, a translator should be ""faithful"" to the original, an ideal Arnold noted requires the translator to choose between producing a text so smooth that the reader does not realize it is a translation versus reproducing certain oddities of the original language to remind the reader of its origin. Second, a translator should seek to reproduce Homer's style and effect on the reader."" (Young, The Printed Homer, 2008, p. 88). Matthew Arnold (1822 -1888) was a famous English poet and cultural critic, who worked as an inspector of schools. In 1857, he was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford and was the first in this position to deliver his lectures in English rather than in Latin. His first major achievement as Oxford-professor was his three lectures ""On Translating Homer"" that were published as they are here, in 1861. ""[T]he most substantial fruits of his professorship were the three lectures ""On Translating Homer"" (1861)-in which he recommended Homer's plainness and nobility as medicine for the modern world, with its ""sick hurry and divided aims"" and condemned Francis Newman's recent translation as ignoble and eccentric..."" (Encycl. Britt.). The work had an enormous effect on Homer studies and on classical scholarship, translation-practice, and literary theory in general.‎

‎Winslow Homer. Force of Nature‎

‎Riopelle, Christopher, Christine Riding and Chiara di Stefano: Winslow Homer. Force of Nature. Exhibition: London, National Gallery, 2022. 128 pages, 85 colour illustrations. Paperback. 26 x 24cms. Exploring Homer's body of work through prominent themes like the conflict between life and death as informed by his experience during the American Civil War and his travels to England, Florida, and the Gulf Stream.‎

‎Exploring Homer's body of work through prominent themes like the conflict between life and death as informed by his experience during the American Civil War and his travels to England, Florida, and the Gulf Stream. Text in English‎

‎Homer. Homer's Iliad translated from Greek in verses the size of the original.‎

‎Homer. Homer's Iliad translated from Greek in verses the size of the original. Added: Homer's life descriptions and his Iliad's translator into Russian by Gnedich with their portraits held at the Imperial Public Library. /Gomer. Iliada Gomera perevod s grecheskogo v stikhakh razmerom podlinnika. Priplet: Zhizneopisaniya Gomera i perevodchika ego Iliady na russkiy yazyk Gnedicha s ikh portretami nakhodyashchimisya pri Imperatorskoy Publichnoy biblioteke. Translated by N.Gnedichem. St. Petersburg: At the publisher bookseller Lisenkov. 1861-1867. 8 XXII 360 p. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalb969ecde6add617a6‎

‎Homer. Homer's Odyssey. Translated by V.A. Zhukovsky. Without knowing the ancien‎

‎Homer. Homer's Odyssey. Translated by V.A. Zhukovsky. Without knowing the ancient Greek language he famously translated Homer by subtitle.. In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Gomer. Odisseya Gomera. V perevode V. A. Zhukovskogo. Ne znaya drevnegrecheskogo yazyka vydayushchimsya obrazom perevel Gomera po podstrochniku.. With drawings in the text and 16 separate paintings by F. Preller. With a foreword by F. Zelinsky Ordinary Professor at Imperial St. Petersburg University. S. Petersburg Edition by A. F. Devrien 1911. XVI 311 1 p. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalbd4db17456d1b2e67‎

‎N. I. Gnedich Iliad Homer. Part 1 In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/N. I. Gnedich ‎

‎N. I. Gnedich Iliad Homer. Part 1 In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/N. I. Gnedich Iliada Gomera. Chast' 1 Short description: In Russian (ask us if in doubt).Before that, Homer's epic poem was published twice in Russian in prose, and in 1787 the first 6 songs of the work were published in a poetic translation by E. Kostrov, composed in the size of the Alexandrian verse. Wanting to continue Kostrov's work, Gnedich began further translation of the poem in the same size. However, after six years of hard work, the poet made the willful decision to translate the entire translation, opting for a Russian hexameter, the size, according to Gnedich, that most vividly conveyed Homer's verse. Nikolai Ivanovich devoted twenty years of his life to the translation of the Iliada. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalbcb7a8739d5852e6c‎