Chapmaniac
Colin Burrow: Chapman’s Homer, 27 June 2002
Chapman’s Homer: The ‘Iliad’
edited by Allardyce Nicoll.
Princeton, 613 pp., £13.95, December 1998,0 691 00236 3 Show More
edited by Allardyce Nicoll.
Princeton, 613 pp., £13.95, December 1998,
Chapman’s Homer: The ‘Odyssey’
edited by Allardyce Nicoll.
Princeton, 613 pp., £13.95, January 2001,0 691 04891 6 Show More
edited by Allardyce Nicoll.
Princeton, 613 pp., £13.95, January 2001,
“... that king, whome Jove hath set here in his place,’ Hall insists. In 1598 things were to change. George Chapman, known chiefly as the author of a handful of comedies and a couple of punishingly obscure poems, printed the first instalment of his translation of Homer. This was to become Chapman’s most extended labour ... ”