The British Poets: Including Translations - Softcover

C. Whittingham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0461623021 ISBN 13: 9780461623024

Publisher: HardPress, 2021

Synopsis

The British Poets: Including Translations by C. Whittingham. This volume assembles epics, pastorals, odes, and critical materials to illuminate how translation and commentary shape the reception of classical epic. The excerpt opens with a theoretical treatise on epic poetry—unity of the fable, balance of moral instruction and entertaining action, the use of divine machinery, and the structure of beginning, middle, and end—followed by close readings of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey that contrast the war-centered epic with the Odyssey’s emphasis on prudent rule and the consequences of absence, governance, and obedience. It introduces major figures from the Odyssey (Odysseus, Telemachus, Penelope, Athena, Calypso, Hermes, Nestor, Menelaus, Helen) and traces Telemachus’s coming-of-age journey alongside Odysseus’s perilous voyage. The section also presents a Virgil edition in Dryden’s translation, complete with pastoral and ode cycles, a long Preface by Walsh defending Virgil, and a Dedication, concluding with discussions of Aeneas’s departure from Dido. The translator’s verse-preserving, ornate style is highlighted throughout.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0461623021
• ISBN 13: 9780461623024
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 897