Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 12 of 70 records

Total number of records: 70

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items69
Archives1

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
English Literature28
Brotherton Collection27
Herbert Read Collection2
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
epic poetry6
pastoral poetry6
poetry6
epic poetry, greek4
greek language4
english poetry3
fables3
odysseus, king of ithaca (mythological character) in literature3
translating and interpreting3
architecture1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Homer70
Le Bossu, Rene (1631-1680)14
Pope, Alexander12
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)12
Broome, William8
Broome, William (1689-1745)8
Fenton, Elijah8
Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)8
Le Bossu, Rene8
Virgil7

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 15001
From 160010
From 170036
From 180016
From 19005

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 15991
Up to 169910
Up to 179936
Up to 189916
Up to 19995

Archive Print Item

On translating Homer

Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888); Newman, Francis William (1805-1897)

"With F.W. Newman's ̀Homeric translation' and Arnold's ̀Last words'" -- t.p.

More details


Archive Print Item

The Odyssey of Homer. Translated from the Greek (v.1)

Homer; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Broome, William (1689-1745); Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730); Le Bossu, René (1631-1680); Homer

1725-1726

Half title: Pope's Odyssey. "A general view of the epic poem, and of the Iliad and Odyssey. Extracted from Bossu": v. 1, p. [i]-xxxii. "Postscript. By Mr. Pope": v. 5, p. 231-251. "Homer's Battl...

More details


Archive Print Item

The Odyssey of Homer. Translated from the Greek (v.2)

Homer; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Broome, William (1689-1745); Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730); Le Bossu, René (1631-1680); Homer

1725-1726

Half title: Pope's Odyssey. "A general view of the epic poem, and of the Iliad and Odyssey. Extracted from Bossu": v. 1, p. [i]-xxxii. "Postscript. By Mr. Pope": v. 5, p. 231-251. "Homer's Battl...

More details


Archive Print Item

The Odyssey of Homer. Translated from the Greek (v.3)

Homer; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Broome, William (1689-1745); Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730); Le Bossu, René (1631-1680); Homer

1725-1726

Half title: Pope's Odyssey. "A general view of the epic poem, and of the Iliad and Odyssey. Extracted from Bossu": v. 1, p. [i]-xxxii. "Postscript. By Mr. Pope": v. 5, p. 231-251. "Homer's Battl...

More details


Archive Print Item

The Odyssey of Homer. Translated from the Greek (v.4)

Homer; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Broome, William (1689-1745); Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730); Le Bossu, René (1631-1680); Homer

1725-1726

Half title: Pope's Odyssey. "A general view of the epic poem, and of the Iliad and Odyssey. Extracted from Bossu": v. 1, p. [i]-xxxii. "Postscript. By Mr. Pope": v. 5, p. 231-251. "Homer's Battl...

More details


Archive Print Item

The Odyssey of Homer. Translated from the Greek (v.5)

Homer; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Broome, William (1689-1745); Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730); Le Bossu, René (1631-1680); Homer

1725-1726

Half title: Pope's Odyssey. "A general view of the epic poem, and of the Iliad and Odyssey. Extracted from Bossu": v. 1, p. [i]-xxxii. "Postscript. By Mr. Pope": v. 5, p. 231-251. "Homer's Battl...

More details


Archive Print Item

The Odyssey : translated by E. V. Rieu

Homer; Rieu, E V (1887-1972)

1976

First published 1946.

More details


Archive Print Item

Proofs of the enquiry into Homer's life and writings, translated into English

Blackwell, Thomas (1701-1757); Blackwell, Thomas (1701-1757)

1748

By Thomas Blackwell the Younger, author of the enquiry. With a half title and a final leaf of advertisements for books printed for John Oswald. Cushing provides subtitle (or explanation): being a ...

More details


Archive Print Item

An essay towards a translation of Homer's works : in blank verse

Homer; Scott, Joseph Nicol (1703?-1769)

MDCCLV [1755]

Consists of passages from books 1, 3, 4, 6 and 11-15 of the Iliad.

More details


Archive File

Translation of and notes on Homer's Iliad, Book XIII, by David Forsyth

Forsyth, David (1844-1934)

1865

Ff.72-81 are loose sheets inserted

More details