Lecturing as Oxford Professor of Poetry, Arnold argues that a translator of Homer must be rapid, plain and direct in words and thought, and noble, and tests the versions of Chapman, Pope, Cowper and Francis Newman against those demands. This edition includes Newman’s indignant reply and Arnold’s rejoinder, so the quarrel can be read in full.
A classic of English criticism, still argued over by every translator of the Iliad. Download the free EPUB.