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It's at least as much Vergil as it is Fagles, which is a big improvement over his paraphrases of Homer, but, like his Iliad and Odyssey, it's considerably longer than the original.
R.I.P. ROBERT FAGLES TEV 2008
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With spare language taken principally from the translations by Robert Fitzgerald and Robert Fagles, and with intricate pencil and watercolor illustrations, Mr. Hinds re-creates Odysseus 'turbulent voyage across "the wine-dark sea" from the ruins of Troy to the island of Ithaca and his long-suffering wife, Penelope.
Highbrow Meghan Cox Gurdon 2010
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But none of those, in my opinion, can be compared with the translations of both poems by Robert Fagles that were published at the end of the last century.
The Best Epic Translations: Lattimore (Iliad), Fagles (Odyssey), Fitzgerald (Aeneid), Pinsky (Inferno), Merwin (Purgatorio), Mandelbaum (Paradiso) Jonathan Aquino 2009
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I can't imagine any reader not being transported by Fagles into Homer's magical world.
The Best Epic Translations: Lattimore (Iliad), Fagles (Odyssey), Fitzgerald (Aeneid), Pinsky (Inferno), Merwin (Purgatorio), Mandelbaum (Paradiso) Jonathan Aquino 2009
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Homer's Odyssey, translated by Robert Fagles (1999).
Archive 2009-04-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009
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As quoted by Charles McGrath in “Robert Fagles, Translator of the Classics, Dies at 74” in the New York Times, March 29, 2008.
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Homer's Odyssey, translated by Robert Fagles (1999).
The Best Epic Translations: Lattimore (Iliad), Fagles (Odyssey), Fitzgerald (Aeneid), Pinsky (Inferno), Merwin (Purgatorio), Mandelbaum (Paradiso) Jonathan Aquino 2009
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Le Guin, and now I'm jonesing to read Virgil's Aeneid; I'm going to order the new Fagles translation from Amazon when payday rolls around.
Quick Meme: What Are You Reading and How Are You Liking It? 2008
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There were innumerable exchanges with brilliant classmates, among them the playwright Ralph Allen, the classics scholar Robert Fagles, and the composer Michael Sahl.
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May we infer that whatever Knox writes there, he includes in some form in his introduction to Fagles?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Important New Translation of the Iliad: 2009
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