Books with author Translated by Robert Fitzgerald Homer

One of the supreme masterpieces of world literature, the Homeric saga of the shipwrecks, wanderings, and homecoming of the master tactician Odysseus encompasses a virtual inventory of the themes and attitudes that have shaped Western culture. The tale of Odysseus’s encounters with such obstacles as Calypso, Circe, Scylla and Charybdis, the Sirens, and the lotus-eaters, and his dramatic return to Ithaca and his patient wife, Penelope, forms a prototype for all subsequent Western epics.Robert Fitzgerald’s much-acclaimed translation, fully possessing as it does the body and spirit of the original, has helped to assure the continuing vitality of Europe’s most influential work of poetry. This edition includes twenty-five new line drawings by Barnaby Fitzgerald.

In every century since the renaissance, English speakers have felt compelled to possess a translation written especially for their own time of this great epic poem, the earliest and most central literary text of Western culture. That need has been thoroughly met in our century by the distinguished poet and classicist Robert Fitzgerald, whose version of The Iliad does justice in every way to the fluent vigor and gravity of the Homeric original.

from international collectors library description: "The Odyssey was already an ancient and revered classic to the Athenians of the 6th century B.C., and it was recited in full together with the Iliad, at a public festival held every four years. ... The version now offered by the International Collectors Library is the work of Robert Fitzgerald, who has translated other Greek classics and published three books of his own poetry. His Odyssey, ... combines a fidelity to the Greek original and a lucid contemporaneity. And Homer is truly contemporaneous - for he is blessed with the rare gift of an ever-youthful heart that makes for timelessness. ... His Odysseus - whom you now meet - will always remain among the towering characters of legendary fiction."