Description
The Homer Collection brings together Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey in a matching two-volume set, uniting the story of Achilles and the Trojan War with the long voyage of Odysseus home to Ithaca. Together, the two epics form one of the foundational works of the Western literary tradition, encompassing war and homecoming, honor and vengeance, courage, loss, adventure, and the intervention of the gods.
These editions present the celebrated eighteenth-century English verse translations associated with Alexander Pope. Written in heroic couplets and shaped by the characteristic music, grandeur, and formal elegance of English Neoclassical poetry, Pope’s Homer became a landmark in the history of the ancient epics’ reception in English.
Samuel Johnson famously wrote of Pope’s Homer that “his version may be said to have tuned the English tongue.”
Presented as a matching pair of elegant 6 × 9 inch volumes, The Iliad and The Odyssey combine Pope’s distinctive poetic rendering with a restrained, classically inspired design. This collection brings both epics together as a handsome set for reading, study, or the bookshelf.
