Certain Accepted Heroes and Other Essays in Literature and Politics (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Certain Accepted Heroes and Other Essays in Literature and Politics There have appeared lately some very notable prose translations of the Homeric poems; Professor Palmer´s Odyssey, and the Iliad and Odyssey "done into English" by Mr. Andrew Lang, Mr. Butcher, Mr. Leaf, and Mr. Myers. These translations seem to prove the decided superiority of fine prose in giving an English version of the great Greek epics. Whatever their advantages, metre or rhyme, or both, impose such conditions upon the translator that he is inevitably forced to depart more widely from his original than if he were not so fettered. Of course, a dry and baldly literal rendering of Homer into English prose is of little value except as a labor-saving device for the school-boy. The proposition that prose is the best vehicle for translation rests necessarily on the assumption that the prose itself is of the best, and such is certainly the case in these new versions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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