Word: homering
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While maintaining the narrative and dramatic pitch of the poem, Fitzgerald's verse is open to the full beauty of metaphor and resonance of cadence in Homer's poem. At the same time, he preserves the freshness and vitality of the original, and this is perhaps the genius of Fitzgerald's translation...
When Fitzgerald's Odyssey won immediate acclaim as the finest English translation of Homer's epic, his reputation was already established by two volumes of original and translated poetry, and the definitive translation, in collaboration with Didley Fitts, of several Greek tragedies, including Sophocles' Oedipal trilogy and Euripides' Alcestis. As William Arrowsmith pointed out in his review of Fitzgerald's Odyssey in The Nation, Fitzgerald avoids a mere word-by-word rendering of the original poem. Rather, he totally recasts the Greek into English,...rethinking and reshaping the Greek by turning the thrust and power beneath the words rather than...
Staub's first inning homer, a towering drive over the left field fence, followed singles by Wayne Garret and Felix Millan. The runs proved to be all young Mets lefthander Jon Matlack needed, as he checked the A's on three hits and one unearned run until departing for reliever Ray Sadecki in the ninth...
...other baseball action in the American League, the Boston Red Sox picked up a 3-2 victory over the Cleveland Indians as Orlando Cepeda drilled a three-run homer, his 20th of the season...
Montreal blew what was probably its last chance to stay in contention as the Pirates scored a 3-0 victory paced by Willie Stargell's 43rd homer. In the first game of the twinighter played before a standing room only crowd in Montreal the Expos gave their fans something to cheer about as they chased Pittsburgh starter Bob Moose for a 5-4 victory. Steve Renko got his 15th win against 11 losses...