![]() The Odyssey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) By Homer Introduction by Bernard Knox Translated by Robert Fagles Notes by Bernard Knox By Homer Introduction by Bernard Knox Translated by Robert Fagles Notes by Bernard Knox By Homer Introduction by Bernard Knox Translated by Robert Fagles Notes by Bernard Knox By Homer Introduction by Bernard Knox Translated by Robert Fagles Notes by Bernard Knox By Homer Introduction by Bernard Knox Translated by Robert Fagles Notes by Bernard Knox By Homer Introduction by Bernard Knox Translated by Robert Fagles Notes by Bernard Knox Part of. About The Odyssey Robert Fagles’s stunning modern-verse translation-available at last in our black-spine classics line The Odyssey is literature’s grandest evocation of everyman’s journey through life. In the myths and legends that are retold here, renowned translator Robert Fagles has captured the energy and poetry of Homer’s original in a bold, contemporary idiom and given us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. This is an Odyssey to delight both the classicist and the general reader, and to captivate a new generation of Homer’s students. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, presents us with Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem in a stunning modern-verse translation. In Homer, the Odyssey, trans. Robert Fagles. New York: Penguin Books, 1996. New York: Penguin Books, 1996. Knox’s long introduction to Fagles’ famous translation covers the poem’s text and transmission, debates about its composition, its style and meter, the geography of Odysseus’ wanderings, and its complicated narrative structure.
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