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r THE PEOPLE'S LIBRARY THE ILIAD OF HOMER ALEXANDER POPE m EDITOR'S NOTE "It is certainly the noblest version of poetry that the world has ever seen," said . Dr. Johnson,"and itspublication mustthere- > forebeconsideredasoneof the greatevents i in the annals of Learning." Pope was twenty-five when he began his translations of the Iliad thirty when he finished. Itliftedhimatoneboundtoaffluence andpower. Itwasaremarkableexperimentin publishing,andmany ofPope'sfriends shook their heads at his temerityin attempting to subscribe the work, almost single-handed, at the unheard-of price of six guineas for six quarto volumes, Butin face of thegreatest difficulties not the least of which was the increasinggibesof his politicalenemies the poet succeeded triumphantly. The full history of the book is givenby Dr.Johnson in his Lives of the Poets,and deservestobe reaGdibbbyoanllcwahlloedlitkheislitterraanrsylaptliuocnk."aportrait endowedwitheverymerit savethat of faith fulnesstotheoriginal." Therein spoke the sticklerforclassicalaccuracy. Allthatneed herebesaidisthatPope'sworkhassurvived the test of popularity,andcertainly remains to-day the best-known and most widely- esteemedoftranslationsfromthe Greek. Alexander Pope was born in 1688, and died in 1744. His life was full of bitter moments, for he contended with physic"al disabilities, but of him a friend wrote: I neverknew amanthathad so tenderaheart for his particular friends, or more general friendshipformankind." THE ILIAD OF HOMER TRANSLATED BY ALEXANDER POPE CASSELL AND COMPANY. LTD. LONDON M NEW YORK TORONTO & MELBOURNE MCMIX 978566
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