Odyssey of Homer FROM THE PUBLISHER
The most eloquent translation of Homer's Odyssey into modern English.
FROM THE CRITICS
Walter Kaufmann
[Lattimore's] Odyssey is his masterpiece.
Rex Warner
[Lattimore's] complete Homer is indeed a splendid achievement, and I shall be very far from being alone in regarding it...as the best translation there is of a great, perhaps the greatest, poet. —New York Times Book Review
Paul Engle
Lattimore's translation of Homer's Odyssey is the most eloquent, persuasive, and imaginative I have seen. It reads as if the poem had originally been written in English.
Gilbert Highet
The best...translator of Greek poetry into English is Richmond Lattimore...This is the best Odyssey in modern English. In this Odyssey Professor Lattimore has achieved his chef d'oeuvre as a translator...[A] dazzling and well-nigh flawless performance...Here is a master in perfect control of his medium...A landmark in the history of modern translation...It would be a crime to underestimate the miraculous and self-effacing artistry with which Professor Lattimore has reanimated Homer for this generation, and perhaps for other generations to come. —London,Times Literary Supplement
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