Greek Poets in English Verse by Various Translators

For the Odyssey the editor has drawn largely from Worsley's beautiful version in Spenserian stanzas. Some passages have also been given in the spirited ballad measures of Maginn his efforts in this direction being an interesting experiment and cleverly executed, but sufficiently convincing that the ballad manner is not the manner of Homer. As for that dream of scholars and poets alike, a successful rendering of Homer into English in the original dactylic hexameters, - it seems little likely of realization; though here and there great success has been attained with single passages, as in Dr. Hawtrey's Helen on the Walls of Troy, and in Mr. E. C. Stedman's Death of Agamemnon, both given in this volume.

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