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Title: Chapman's Homer by George Chapman, Allardyce Nicoll ISBN: 0-691-00236-3 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 23 November, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.43 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Classic Done Right
Comment: I've always wanted to read the Odyssey, but could never get into it...that's the problem with reading books in translation; if you get a bad translation, the book sucks. But Chapman does a wonderful job with Homer...this is about as beautifully poetic as you can get. The other great thing about this is that it's written in iambic pentameter, (although the Illiad is done with the fourteen syllable line,) the meter that Shakespeare used for his plays. If you're into Elizabethan writing at all, this is a great book for you.
Rating: 5
Summary: Dear Mr. Smith
Comment: My review of the book is just to correct Kent Smith's shockingly ignorant statement. Wouldn't one's confusion over a word's meaning necessitate the turning to the glossary? Why rely on obtrusive footnotes? Why not let your ignorance of Chapman's extraordinary, polyglot, maddeningly-diverse vocabulary be the guide?
My advice is the same I'd give to a child: if you don't know a word LOOK IT UP. Advice you don't need to be "an academic num-num"--although I am an academic--to think of, nor heed. I might also suggest looking in the Oxford English Dictionary--created by academic num nums, but accessible to such enlighteded common readers as Mr. Smith--it has many of Chapman's neologisms--to save Mr. Smith the trouble of looking up this extraordinarily difficult phrase, it means "new words," from Greek NEOS "new" and LOGOS "word" (Isn't erudition, however minor, fun and useful, Mr. Smith?--and is quite exciting in the bargain.
By the way, this edition of Chapman is by far the best I have seen; Chapman's translation is also highly recommended.
Rating: 5
Summary: Dear Kent Smith
Comment: My review of the book is just to correct Kent Smith's shockingly ignorant statement. Wouldn't one's confusion over a word's meaning necessitate the turning to the glossary? Why rely on obtrusive footnotes? Why not let your ignorance of Chapman's extraordinary, polyglot, maddeningly-diverse vocabulary be the guide?
My advice is the same I'd give to a child: if you don't know a word LOOK IT UP. Advice you don't need to be "an academic num-num"--although I am an academic--to think of, nor heed. I might also suggest looking in the Oxford English Dictionary--created by academic num nums, but accessible to such enlighteded common readers as Mr. Smith--it has many of Chapman's neologisms--to save Mr. Smith the trouble of looking up this extraordinarily difficult phrase, it means "new words," from Greek NEOS "new" and LOGOS "word" (Isn't erudition, however minor, fun and useful, Mr. Smith?--and is quite exciting in the bargain.
By the way, this edition of Chapman is by far the best I have seen; Chapman's translation is also highly recommended.
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Title: Ovid's Metamorphoses : The Arthur Golding Translation of 1567 by Ovid, Jonathan Bate, Jonathan Bate, John Frederick Nims ISBN: 0966491319 Publisher: Paul Dry Books Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Iliad by Homer, Alexander Pope, Theodore Alois Buckley ISBN: 1592247601 Publisher: Wildside Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Virgil's Aeneid by John Dryden, Frederick M. Keener ISBN: 0140446273 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Ovid's Metamorphoses by Arthur Golding ISBN: 0801870607 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton, William H. Gass, Holbrook Jackson ISBN: 0940322668 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: 09 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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