The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Iliad of Homer
Title: The Iliad of Homer
Author: Homer
Annotator: M. A. Dwight
Editor: Robert Southey
Translator: William Cowper
Release date: August 5, 2005 [eBook #16452]
Most recently updated: September 4, 2021
Language: English
Original publication: New York, D. Appleton & Co., 346 & 348 Broadway,, 1860
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THE
ILIAD OF HOMER,
TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BLANK VERSE
BY WILLIAM COWPER.
EDITED BY ROBERT SOUTHEY. LL.D.
WITH NOTES,
BY M.A. DWIGHT,
AUTHOR OF “GRECIAN AND ROMAN MYTHOLOGY.”
NEW-YORK:
D. APPLETON & CO., 346 & 348 BROADWAY.
M.DCCC.LX.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849,
By M.A. DWIGHT,
in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the Southern District
of New York.
TO THE
RIGHT HONORABLE
EARL COWPER,
THIS
TRANSLATION OF THE ILIAD,
THE INSCRIPTION OF WHICH TO HIMSELF,
THE LATE LAMENTED EARL,
BENEVOLENT TO ALL,
AND ESPECIALLY KIND TO THE AUTHOR,
HAD NOT DISDAINED TO ACCEPT
IS HUMBLY OFFERED,
AS A SMALL BUT GRATEFUL TRIBUTE,
TO THE MEMORY OF HIS FATHER,
BY HIS LORDSHIP’S
AFFECTIONATE KINSMAN AND SERVANT
WILLIAM COWPER.
June 4, 1791.