Excerpt from The Story of the Odyssey In making a choice of translations, obscurity and stilted expression have been, so far as possible, avoided. Chapman is archaic, sometimes obscure, frequently forced and commonplace. Pope is rhetorical, artificial, insincere. Cowper seldom soars, and often drops to feebleness; and at times he ruins an otherwise noble rendering by a bombastic word or sentiment. Worsley's translation reaches a high poetic level, and has great literary merit; but the thought is entangled by intricate meter and rhyme, which make clear and direct expres sion hard, and often compel inversion, big words and obscurity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.