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ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF HOMER
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Reprinted: [With Book xxiv] 1894." (Foster p.73).

According to the Brit. Mus. Cat., Books xxii and xxiii, together, appeared in 1890. The B. M. copy is undated.

1890.—"Homer's Iliad. Books xxii & xxiii. Translated into English by H. Hailstone . . . . Cambridge, 1890. 8o."

1891.—"The Odyssey of Homer, books ix.-xii. Rendered into English blank verse by W. Cudworth . . . . [Privately printed] 1891. 8o."

1891.—"The Sixth Book of Homer's Iliad. A prose translation by Hallam Tennyson. See Tennyson (Hon. L) Lionel Tennyson. A memorial volume. 1891. 8o."

1898.—"The Odyssey, Book vii, in English Verse . . . . London, Chiswick Press, 1898."

1899.—"The Homeric Hymns: a new prose translation and essays, literary and mythological, by Andrew Lang . . . . London, 1899. 8o."

1900.—"The Odyssey, rendered into English prose . . . . by Samuel Butler . . . . London, 1900. 8o."

1900.—"The First Book of the Iliad of Homer done into English by Edward Carpenter. [In verse.] 1900 . . . . The Story of Eros and Psyche, etc. 1900. 8o"

1908.—"Iliad Book ix. Translated from the text in the Pitt Press series by C. H. Prichard . . . . Cambridge, 1908. 8o."

1914.—"Hesiod. The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by H. G. Evelyn-White . . . . Loeb Classical Library, 1914." Listed by Foster only under Hesiod, p. 61.

In addition to the items queried in the above list, there are two or three other translations named by Dr. Foster which I have not yet been able to identify.

A few translations which have been issued since Dr. Foster's dissertation appeared may be added here for the sake of completeness.

1919.—"The Odyssey, with an English translation by A. T. Murray . . . . two volumes . . . . Loeb Classical Library, 1919."

1921.—"The Odyssey translated into English, in the original metre, by Francis Caulfeild . . . . London, 1921. 8o."

1922.—"Thirty-two Passages from the Iliad in English rhymed verse. By C. D. Locock . . . . London, 1922. 8o."

1922.—"The Wrath of Achilleus. Translated from the Iliad into quantitative hexameters [with a preface on English prosody] by George Ernle . . . . London. 1922."

1923.—"Thirty-two Passages from the Odyssey. In English rhymed verse by C. D. Locock . . . . London, 1923."

1924.—"The Iliad with an English translation by A. T. Murray. Vol. I. London, 1924."

J. N. Douglas Bush