title: The Odyssey: A New Verse Translation
author:  Homer 
description: Albert Cook is Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and Classics at Brown University, where he has taught since 1978. Author, poet, and playwright, he is the author of the critical studies The Classic Line: A Study of Epic Poetry, Myth and Language, and Soundings: On Shakespeare, Modern Poetry, Plato, and Other Subjects; the poetry collections Adapt the Living, Modulars, and Delayed Answers; and the plays The Death of Trotsky and Recall. His articles and poetry have appeared in scores of periodicals.
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  Title: The Odyssey
  
  
  
  
  
  Author: Homer
  
  
  
  
  
  Translator: Samuel Butler
  
  
  
  
  
  Release Date: April, 1999 [EBook #1727]
  
  
  Last Updated: April 9, 2013
  
  
  
  
  
  Language: English
  
  
  
  
  
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  # THE ODYSSEY
  
  
  
  
  
  rendered into English
  
  
  prose for the use of
  
  
  those who cannot
  
  
  read the original
  
  
  
  
  
  By Samuel Butler
  
  
  
  
  
  ## PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION
  
  
  
  
  
  This translation is intended to supplement a work entitled "The
  
  
  Authoress of the Odyssey", which I published in 1897. I could not give
  
  
  the whole "Odyssey" in that book without making it unwieldy, I therefore
  
  
  epitomised my translation, which was alrea