Chapman's Homer: The Iliad

Description

This volume presents George Chapman's original 1611 translation of Homer's epic poem "The Iliad". The text makes only a small number of modifications to punctuation and wording where they might confuse the modern reader, and provides an introduction, textual notes and a commentary. A preface explains how Chapman tapped into the poetic consonance between the semi-divine heroism of the Iliad's warriors, and the cosmological symbols of renaissance humanism.

"Nicoll's gently modernised edition of Chapman's Homer [is] a work to be admired, bought, even read right through... This cheap reprint of a scarce and very good edition of a great work is a thing to be welcomed."--Colin Burrow, London Review of Books