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Religions > Atheism |
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"maff" |
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25 May 2006 04:26:15 AM |
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Homer |
In loose-limbed English
http://www.economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=6911172
May 11th 2006
From The Economist print edition
IN 1817, John Keats, an English poet, was so taken by an Elizabethan
verse translation of "deep-browed" Homer that he published a sonnet
in its honour entitled "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer".
Keats said that reading the book had given him such a combined sense of
shock and uplift that he felt like "some watcher of the skies/When a
new planet swims into his ken".
Two centuries on, Homer's great epics, the "Iliad" and the
"Odyssey", which were written more than 2,500 years ago, are still
calling forth repeated acts of homage from poets and translators. Keats
was not undertaking the awe-inspiring task of endeavouring to translate
Homer. He was acknowledging an imaginative debt to Homer as the creator
of two of the greatest verse epics ever written.
Homer
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| User: "Bretts" |
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| Title: Re: Homer |
25 May 2006 05:42:18 AM |
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tnx u 4 ur info im a engelish teacher in a chrsitain school so i no all
about homer yyy dont u mention thet homer was a chrsitain to
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