Pope's Iliad
"It is a very pretty poem, Mr. Pope, but you must not call it Homer." --
attributed to Richard Bentley in Johnson's Life of Pope
Index
- Preface
- Pope's comments on Homer and the problems of translating him.
- Book I
- The Contention of Achilles and Agamemnon
- Book II
- The Trial of the Army and Catalogue of the Forces
- Book III
- The Duel of Menelaus and Paris
- Book IV
- The Breach of the Truce, and the First Battle
- Observations on Homer's Battles
- Pope's notes on the battle scenes in the subsequent books.
- Book V
- The Acts of Diomed
- Book VI
- The Episodes of Glaucus and Diomed, and of Hector and Andromache.
- Book VII
- The Single Combat of Hector and Ajax.
More to come.