Alexander Pope es considerado generalmente como el mayor poeta inglés del siglo XVIII, célebre por sus agudos versos satíricos y su influyente traducción de Homero. Se sitúa como el tercer escritor más citado en lengua inglesa, un testimonio de su perdurable impacto. El dominio de Pope del pareado heroico le permitió crear versos de una elegancia y precisión inigualables.
Homer's epic in which Greek hero Odysseus makes his long and treacherous journey home after the Tojan War, while his wife Penelope and his son Telemachos are forced to scheme to protect his throne until his return.
Homero es el poeta griego por antonomasia, el poeta divino que influyó decisivamente en el arte, la literatura, la lengua, la religión y la filosofía griegas. Su obra, memorizada por los escolares, ha dejado a través de los siglos una huella indeleble en la vida de los griegos. Homero llegó a Occidente de la mano de Petrarca, cuando este humanista adquirió los manuscritos de los dos inigualables poemas homéricos que, con gran dolor, no supo descifrar. El mensaje de la «Ilíada» está, sin embargo, ahora claro para nosotros: aunque los héroes hagan frente al inexorable hado que pesa sobre los mortales cosechando la gloria, nada hay sobre la tierra más miserable que el hombre. La presente edición restituye la obra a sus orígenes ofreciendo una traducción muy literal en verso.
A selection of poems by Alexander Pope. This book is part of a series aimed at the general reader rather than the specialist, and as such carries no critical or explanatory apparatus. Other poets featured in this series include Christina Rossetti, John Keats and Gerard Manley Hopkins.
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Highlights Alexander Pope's role in the Scriblerus club, a group of writers who aimed to satirize the mediocrity and false learning they observed in the arts and sciences of their time.
An account of the birth, the infancy, the schooling, the diet-planning, the unconventional love affairs and the attainments of this child prodigy, The Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus is surely the funniest imaginary biography ever written.
A series featuring a contemporary poet selecting and introducing a poet of the past. It, by choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions expressed in prefaces, offers insights into the poets' own work as well as providing an introduction to some of the greatest poets of literature.
First published with revisions as an Oxford World's Classics paperback: 2006.
