Anonymous
6/17/2025, 12:22:12 AM No.24472187
>Fagles or Lattimore?
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Anonymous
6/17/2025, 12:24:06 AM No.24472189
fagles if you're a normie with low reading level, lattimore for everyone else.
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 12:26:03 AM No.24472190
>>24472187 (OP)
Fagles
Fagles
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 12:29:23 AM No.24472197
>>24472187 (OP)
Is Robert Fitzgerald a trash translation? I got it for a couple dollars at a used book shop earlier this year.
Is Robert Fitzgerald a trash translation? I got it for a couple dollars at a used book shop earlier this year.
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Anonymous
6/17/2025, 12:34:03 AM No.24472208
>>24472187 (OP)
learn portuguese then read the translation by carlos alberto nunes. the only way t. brazilian
learn portuguese then read the translation by carlos alberto nunes. the only way t. brazilian
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 1:14:16 AM No.24472301
>>24472187 (OP)
read both
read both
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 1:15:42 AM No.24472304
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 1:30:34 AM No.24472341
Bunch of slack-jawed faggots ITT.
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Anonymous
6/17/2025, 5:49:11 AM No.24472855
>>24472187 (OP)
Emily Wilson
Emily Wilson
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 7:23:27 AM No.24473017
>>24472197
Less by a mile than FAGles
Less by a mile than FAGles
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 7:34:00 AM No.24473048
>>24472187 (OP)
Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 9:31:16 AM No.24473235
>>24472199
>>24472384
heard his translation are more of a victorian style instead of being faithful. is this true?
>>24472384
heard his translation are more of a victorian style instead of being faithful. is this true?
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Anonymous
6/17/2025, 9:42:24 AM No.24473246
>>24473235
Yes it is quite jangly and unfaithful.
Yes it is quite jangly and unfaithful.
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 9:52:39 AM No.24473257
>>24472187 (OP)
Obviously Lattimore. Not only is his translation more accurate, it's far better poetry as well.
>>24472199
>>24472341
>>24473143
>>24473235
Between Chapman and Pope, poets who have translated Homer into completely original products of the English poetic tradition, Chapman is certainly greater as well as closer in spirit to Homer. I'm confident most people who prefer Pope just haven't developed a taste for Elizabethan verse. Pope is terribly artificial, narrow in style and about as far removed from the spirit of Homer as is possible. Chapman shares some of the virtues of Homer, Pope none of them.
Obviously Lattimore. Not only is his translation more accurate, it's far better poetry as well.
>>24472199
>>24472341
>>24473143
>>24473235
Between Chapman and Pope, poets who have translated Homer into completely original products of the English poetic tradition, Chapman is certainly greater as well as closer in spirit to Homer. I'm confident most people who prefer Pope just haven't developed a taste for Elizabethan verse. Pope is terribly artificial, narrow in style and about as far removed from the spirit of Homer as is possible. Chapman shares some of the virtues of Homer, Pope none of them.
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 4:04:12 PM No.24473653
Apparently no one reads his
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Anonymous
6/17/2025, 4:09:13 PM No.24473663
>>24472187 (OP)
Never read Lattimore, but Fagles feels like I'm reading Tarzan (based)
Never read Lattimore, but Fagles feels like I'm reading Tarzan (based)
Anonymous
6/17/2025, 4:19:24 PM No.24473695
>>24473653
>I have just finished Chapman's Homer. Did you ever read it?—it has the most continuous power of interesting you all along, like a rapid original, if any, and in the uncommon excellence of the more finished parts goes beyond Fairfax or any of 'em. The meter is fourteen syllables and capable of all sweetness and grandeur. Cowper's damned blank verse detains you every step with some heavy Miltonism; Chapman gallops off with you his own free pace.
- Charles Lamb
>[Chapman's Homer] has no look, no air, of a translation. It is as truly an original poem as the Faery Queene—it will give you a small idea of Homer, though a far truer one than Pope's epigrams, or Cowper's cumbersome most anti-Homeric Miltonism. For Chapman writes and feels as a poet—as Homer might have written had he lived in England under the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
- William Taylor Coleridge
>I have just finished Chapman's Homer. Did you ever read it?—it has the most continuous power of interesting you all along, like a rapid original, if any, and in the uncommon excellence of the more finished parts goes beyond Fairfax or any of 'em. The meter is fourteen syllables and capable of all sweetness and grandeur. Cowper's damned blank verse detains you every step with some heavy Miltonism; Chapman gallops off with you his own free pace.
- Charles Lamb
>[Chapman's Homer] has no look, no air, of a translation. It is as truly an original poem as the Faery Queene—it will give you a small idea of Homer, though a far truer one than Pope's epigrams, or Cowper's cumbersome most anti-Homeric Miltonism. For Chapman writes and feels as a poet—as Homer might have written had he lived in England under the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
- William Taylor Coleridge