Title: A Virtual Unknown....
Product review: Michael Reck's translation of Homer's Iliad is vitually unknown...how pitiable! It is actually one of the finest and impressive accounts I've come accross thus far.Written is short verses, and rendered line-by-line it speaks with a racy, contemporary and firey idiom. After comparing it to Richmond Lattimore's famous version (in long-lined verse), I have to say that Michael Reck's version is far superior and FAR more exciting....almost as exciting as Stanley Lombardo's!Reck's translation reminds me of Albert Cook's line-by-line (verse)tranlsation of the Odyssey, which is naturally poetic, exciting and true to Homer.Reck spent the last 20 years of his life on this translation, and died shortly after it's publication. It is a breath of fresh air after so many other Iliads out there, and am glad to have found it!
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