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The Odyssey
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.