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Translators and scholars have translated the main works attributed to Homer, the Iliad and Odyssey, from the Homeric Greek into English, since the 16th and 17th centuries. Translations are ordered chronologically by date of first publication, with first lines provided to illustrate the style of the translation.
Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 O.S. [1] – 30 May 1744) was an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Enlightenment era who is considered one of the most prominent English poets of the early 18th century.
Alexander Pope’s Iliad; William Cowper's Iliad; Ichabod Charles Wright's Iliad (vol. 1, 1859; vol. 2 was to appear in 1865) Francis W. Newman's Iliad (1856) He adds polite comments on William Maginn's Homeric Ballads (which first appeared in Fraser's Magazine, where Arnold intended to publish these lectures).
John Ogilby's mid-17th-century translation is among the early annotated editions; Alexander Pope's 1715 translation, in heroic couplet, is "the classic translation that was built on all the preceding versions" [72]: 352 and like Chapman's, is a major poetic work in its own right.
In 1699, her prose translation of the Iliad appeared, which earned her the esteem in which she is held in French literature. [7] It was followed nine years later by a similar translation of the Odyssey, which Alexander Pope found useful. Dacier in turn published in 1724 remarks on Pope's translation of the former (1715–20), which gained her ...
The title is a play on Alexander Pope's The Dunciad with a substitution of Hill's name, which represents Smart's debt to Pope for the form and style of The Hilliad as well as a punning reference to the Iliad. In "Book the First" of The Hilliad, Hillario is seduced by a Sibyl to give up his career as an apothecary and instead becomes a writer ...
Alexander Pope. The Iliad of Homer vol. iii; The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope (with new material) Thomas Traherne – Hexameron (on creationism) Leonard Welsted – Palaemon to Caelia, at Bath; Ned Ward. British Wonders; A Collection of Historical and State Poems; Eugenio Gerardo Lobo – Selva de las musas
Among the poets, Alexander Pope and Thomas Campbell were her favorites and models. Pope's translation of the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer were the constant companions of her childhood; and she read them so often, and was so struck with their numerous beauties, that, even as an adult, she retained whole scenes in her memory.