The Iliad of Homer

The Iliad of Homer - Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper

BY J. JOHNSON, LL.B. CHAPLAIN TO THE BISHOP OF PETERBOROUGH. I have no other pretensions to the honorable name of Editor on this occasion, than as a faithful transcriber of the Manuscript, and a diligent corrector of the Press, which are, doubtless, two of the very humblest employments in that most extensive province. I have wanted the ability to attempt any thing higher; and, fortunately for the reader, I have also wanted the presumption. What, however, I can do, I will. Instead of critical remark, I will furnish him with anecdote. He shall trace from beginning to end the progress of the following work; and in proportion as I have the happiness to engage his attention, I shall merit the name of a fortunate editor. It was in the darkest season of a most calamitous depression of his spirits, that I was summoned to the house of my inestimable friend the Translator, in the month of January, 1794. He had happily completed a revisal of his Homer, and was thinking of the preface to his new edition, when all his satisfaction in the one, and whatever he had projected for the other, in a moment vanished from his mind. He had fallen into a deplorable illness; and though the foremost wish of my heart was to lessen the intenseness of his misery, I was utterly unable to afford him any aid. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 16452
Author: Dwight, M. A. (Mary Ann)
Release Date: Aug 5, 2005
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton & Co., 346 & 348 Broadway
Publication Date: 1860

Contributors

Contributor (Author): Homer, 750? BCE-650? BCE
Editor: Southey, Robert, 1774-1843

Translator: Cowper, William, 1731-1800