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Owen Lattimore (July 29, 1900 – May 31, 1989) was an American Orientalist and writer. He was an influential scholar of China and Central Asia, especially Mongolia.Although he never earned a college degree, [1] in the 1930s he was editor of Pacific Affairs, a journal published by the Institute of Pacific Relations, and taught at Johns Hopkins University from 1938 to 1963.
Lattimore matched the dactylic hexameter of the original Homeric text; [1] it is regarded as a generally faithful line-for-line translation. [2] Previous translations favoured changing the poetic metre into a metre regularly used in the target language, a decision made by Lattimore's contemporary Robert Fitzgerald for his translation. [3]
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Lattimore was a Fellow of the Academy of American Poets, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Philological Association, and the Archaeological Institute of America, as well as a Fellow of the American Academy at Rome and an Honorary Student at Christ Church, Oxford.
Lattimore matched the dactylic hexameter of the original Homeric text. [1] Earlier translations favoured changing the poetic metre into a staple of the target language, a decision made Lattimore's contemporary Robert Fitzgerald for his translation. [2] Lattimore's translation is known for its use of epithets but he did excise many of them. [3]
Owen Lattimore (1900–1989), American educator, author and target of Sen. Joseph McCarthy Eleanor Frances Lattimore (1904–1986), American author and illustrator of children's books Richmond Lattimore (1906–1984), American poet and translator of the Iliad and Odyssey
This is a list of English-language poets, who have written much of their poetry in English. [1] Main country of residence as a poet (not place of birth): A = Australia, Ag = Antigua, B = Barbados, Bo = Bosnia, C = Canada, Ch = Chile, Cu = Cuba, D = Dominica, De = Denmark, E = England, F = France, G = Germany, Ga = Gambia, Gd = Grenada, Gh = Ghana/Gold Coast, Gr = Greece, Gu = Guyana/British ...
Eleanor Frances Lattimore (June 30, 1904, Shanghai, China – May 12, 1986, Raleigh, North Carolina) was an American writer and illustrator born in what was called the American Compound in Shanghai and raised in China where her father, David Lattimore, taught English at a Chinese government university.