The Odyssey (Vintage classics)
“[Robert Fitzgerald’s translation is] a masterpiece . . . AnOdysseyworthy of the original.” –The Nation“[Fitzgerald’sOdysseyandIliad] open up once more the unique greatness of Homer’s art at the level above the formula; yet at the same time they do not neglect the brilliant texture of Homeric verse at the level of the line and the phrase.” –The Yale Review“[In] Robert Fitzgerald’s translation . . . there is no anxious straining after mighty effects, but rather a constant readiness for what the occasion demands, a kind of Odyssean adequacy to the task in hand, and this line-by-line vigilance builds up into a completely credible imagined world.”–from the Introduction by Seamus Heaney--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.