The Iliad of Homer

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Excerpt from The Iliad of Homer: With NotesBut although the propriety of literal translation is very generally admitted, yet some, whose approbation the Translator would not willingly forego, are against it, for tified by a prejudice which is of some standing, and had found plausible expression, at least, as far back as Denham's Lines to Fanshawe on the latter's translation of the Pastor Fido. This notion has been worked up into a notable recipe for translation, which, while it alters the expression of the problem, adds nothing to its solution. Applied to our subject, it would run thusz - A perfect translation would present the poem as Homer would have written it in English. This is often uttered with the confidence of an axiom, and yet it recommends an im possibility, and takes for granted what never did nor ever could occur, for no great epic, true and genuine, can be repeated. Every true poem, of like compass, is so eu woven with the then and there of the people and language to which it belongs, as to be inapplicable to any other. This seemingly plausible recommendation, therefore, opens a large field of doubt and difficulty. To ungreek Homer were not enough, - we must Anglicize him. But to what period of our history? Is he to be the Englishman of today? But how then could he have addressed such a poem to the men of the nineteenth century What war rant in our manners would he have found for three fourths of it? And take away these, in what condition would the poem be left? Or, if this were admissible.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.