The OdysseyHomer

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The Odyssey

Homer’s great epic describes the many adventures of Odysseus, Greek

warrior, as he strives over many years to return to his home island of

Ithaca after the Trojan War. His colourful adventures, his

endurance, his love for his wife and son have

the same power to move and inspire readers today as they did in

Archaic Greece, 2800 years ago.

This poem has been translated many times over the years, but

Chapman’s sinewy, gorgeous rendering (1616) stands in a class of its

own. Chapman believed himself inspired by the spirit of Homer

himself, and matches the breadth and power of the original with a

complex and stunning idiom of his own. John Keats expressed his

admiration for the resulting work in the famous sonnet, ‘On first

looking into Chapman’s Homer‘: ‘Much have I travelled in the realms

of gold…’

This new Wordsworth edition of Chapman’s Homer contains

accessible annotation, and a detailed introduction that places his

masterpiece in the context of his own day, and discusses its

influences on later poets.

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