While Richard Lattimore's 1951 translation of Homer's The Iliad is commendable, as are the more recent translations by Robert Fagles (1990) and Stephen Mitchell (2011), for most readers, no translation surpasses the beauty and skill of Alexander Pope. As Daniel Mendelsohn wrote in The New Yorker (October 31, 2011), after noting that it took Pope seven years to complete his volume: "Many consider it the greatest English Iliad, and one of the greatest translations of any work into English. It manages to convey not only the stateliness and grandeur of Homer's lines, but their speed and wit and vividness." Mendelsohn compares a passage from all four translations mentioned above, then notes Pope's precision and detail before proclaiming the Pope translation "the grandest and the most minutely detailed there is ever likely to be." Caroline Alexander's 2015 translation and Peter Green and Barry P. Powell's 2017 translations notwithstanding, it is difficult to imagine anyone as uniquely talented to translate Homer's epic Classical poem than the Neo-Classical Pope. This is the fully illustrated Alexander Pope translation of Homer's epic poem. The Watersgreen House print editions are set in easy-to-read 11-point Sylfaen font (including the footnotes). ........ Watersgreen House is an independent international book publisher with editorial staff in the UK and USA. One of our aims at Watersgreen House is to showcase same-sex affection in works by important gay and bisexual authors in ways which were not possible at the time the books were originally published. We also publish nonfiction, including textbooks, as well as contemporary fiction that is literary, unusual, and provocative. watersgreen.wixsite.com/watersgreenhouse
