Mendelsohn steers an impeccable course between sounding contemporary and preserving the melancholy and grandeur of the Greek Mendelsohn brilliantly conveys how Homeric lines roll forward hypnotically... The highest compliment I can pay Mendelsohn is that his translation of my favourite episode, Odysseuss heroic swim to Phaeacia, is the most excitingly energetic Ive ever read -- Edith Hall * The Telegraph * Daniel Mendelsohn has accomplished something that no recent translator has done so well: a translation that shows a striking fidelity not only to the poems language and thought but also to its formal properties * Deborah Roberts, Haverford College * Daniel Mendelsohns Odyssey is a majestic living poem, keenly responsive to the surge and subtlety of Homers Greek ... A momentous achievement * Rosanna Warren * The expertly crafted work of a true scholar-poet, Mendelsohns rich and rhythmical version hews closely to the Homeric verse-line it feels like the original this superb translation will entice new audiences to delight in the ancient epic * Richard P. Martin, Stanford University * Here is the timeless Homeric river remade with timely majesty, molecule by glistening molecule * Sebastian Barry * His knowledge as a renowned classicist, his ear and eye for sound and image, his acuity in rendering the circuitous yet also self-arresting syntax, and his ingeniously faithful line-by-hexameter-line rendering, make for what will surely be the edition for our time and beyond [ a] triumph * Jorie Graham * Daniel Mendelsohn's Odyssey is a vividly rendered experience that feels inward and mesmerizing take[ s] us deeply into the experience itself through an intense focus on speech and sounds, which are the essence of poetr * Joyce Carol Oates * Mendelsohn is gifted with a wonderful surefootedness of imagination, an almost mystic insight into both the homely and the terrible beauties of antiquity... He has given us a lithe, deft, psychologically nuanced Odyssey. Timeless, cadenced, thrilling, and humane * Michael Chabon * Neither jarringly contemporary nor distractingly archaic, Daniel Mendelsohn's brilliant and necessary translation of The Odyssey is a testament to the enduring power and grace and beauty of Homer's narrative * Francine Prose * History's greatest adventure story brought to us anew by America's greatest living classicistthis is fast, fluent, thrilling, and a hugely impressive accomplishment * Lee Child *
