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The Odyssey

<em>Odes of Horace</em>

EDITIONS & PRINTED BOOKS 

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.

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

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

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

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

 

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