Matthew Arnold — On Translating Homer Three Lectures Given at Oxford

London, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of these published lectures on translations of Homer's work from English cultural critic Matthew Arnold. First edition. Scarce. A detailed and comprehensive copy of three lectures delivered at Oxford, the first criticism by Arnold. Arnold's purpose was to discuss how his principles of literary criticism applied to the two Homeric epics and to the translation of a classical text. With a discussion of the meters employed by previous translators, and in other existing English narrative poetry. Written by Matthew Arnold, an English poet and cultural critic. Publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine with light loss to the cloth at the head and tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Light age toning to the endpapers. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .