Oct 20, 1933 Edmund A. Whitman "Translations almost always disappoint me; I must, however, except Pope's Homer, which has more of the spirit of Homer than all the other translations put together."-LORD BYRON. PALLAS in a council of the gods complains of the detention of Ulysses in the island of Calypso; whereon Mercury is sent to command his removal-The seat of Calypso describedShe consents with much difficulty; and Ulysses builds a vessel with his own hands, on which he embarks-Neptune overtakes him with a terrible tempest, in which he is shipwrecked, and in the last danger of death; till Leucothea, a sea goddess, assists him, and, after innumerable perils, he gets ashore on Phæacia. THE saffron morn, with early blushes spread, 5 |