Six years on from her translation of the Odyssey, Wilson revels in the clarity and emotional clout of Homer's battlefield epic Translations of Homer matter to cultural history. John Keats once looked into the "wide expanse" of George Chapman's 1611 translation of the Iliad and breathed "its pure serene". Alexander Pope's rhyming version of the Iliad (1715-1720) brought a canonical ancient author to a much larger audience than ever before, its readers now including literate workers and women who ...
The Iliad by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson review - a bravura feat
The Guardian - 27 Sep 2023 08:30
Six years on from her translation of the Odyssey, Wilson revels in the clarity and emotional clout of Homer's battlefield epic Translations of Homer matter to cultural history. John Keats once looked into the "wide expanse" of George Chapman's 1611 translation of the Iliad and breathed "its pure serene". Alexander Pope's rhyming version of the Iliad (1715-1720) brought a canonical ancient author to a much larger audience than ever before, its readers now including literate workers and women who ...
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