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The Odyssey

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edited by Peter Wright

EDITIONS & PRINTED BOOKS 

Introduction, by Peter Wright

Text, The Odyssey

First Edition: The Odyssey of Homer Done Into English Verse. London: Reeves and Turner, 1887

MANUSCRIPTS

Manuscript draft: Harry Ransom Library, Texas

Transcription: draft Harry Ransom Library, Texas

Early draft: Manuscript Huntington Library HM6488 

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS

Buchhorn, Wilhelm. William Morris' Odyssee-Übersetzung. Königsberg, 1910.

De Vega, Hope. "Archaisms and Compounds in Book 6 of Morris's Translation of the Odyssey"

Morshead, E. D. A., two reviews, Academy, April 1887, xxxi, 299 and March 1888, xxxiii, 143-4.

Notes, by Peter Wright

Riddehough, Geoffrey. "William Morris's Translation of the 'Odyssey.'" Journal of English and Germanic Philology 40(1991), 558-61.

Weinroth, Michelle. “Morris and the Homeric Epic: Translating The Odyssey into Socialist Praxis.” JWMS 24.2 (2021): 3-21.

Weinroth, Michelle. “Reclaiming the Homeric Artifact: Morris, The Odyssey, and Political Education.” Useful and Beautiful, William Morris Society in the United States, Summer 2021: 14-19.

Wilde, Oscar, unsigned reviews, Pall Mall Magazine, 26 April 1887, xlv, 5 and 24 November 1888, xlvi, 3. 

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