1861 On Translating Homer Three Lectures Given at Oxford

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First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

First edition. Scarce. A detailed and comprehensive copy of three lectures delivered at Oxford, the first criticism by Arnold. Arnold's purpose was to discuss how his principles of literary criticism applied to the two Homeric epics and to the translation of a classical text. With a discussion of the meters employed by previous translators, and in other existing English narrative poetry. Written by Matthew Arnold, an English poet and cultural critic. Publisher's advertisements to the rear.