The Iliad of Homer (Cowper)
THE
ILIAD OF HOMER,
TRANSLATED INTO
ENGLISH BLANK VERSE.
More poems by Homer
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Hector to His Wife
From the Greek by E. C. Hawtrey
From “The Iliad,” Book VI.
[The following extract is given as showing a more modern style of translation. It embraces the bracketed portion of the foregoing from Pope’s version.] … -
Parting of Hector and Andromache
From the Greek by Alexander Pope
From “The Iliad,” Book VI.
“TOO daring prince! ah whither dost thou run? … -
The Camp at Night
From the Greek by George Chapman
From “The Iliad,” Book VIII.
THE WINDS transferred into the friendly sky … -
The Odyssey (Butler)
This translation is intended to supplement a work entitled The Authoress of the Odyssey, which I published in 1897. I could not give the whole Odyssey in that book without making it unwieldy, I therefore epitomised my translation, which was already completed and which I now publish in full.
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