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Title: The Iliad of Homer
Translated into English Blank Verse

Author: Homer

Translator: William Cowper

Release Date: August 5, 2005 [EBook #16452]

Language: English

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THE

ILIAD OF HOMER,

TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BLANK VERSE
BY WILLIAM COWPER.

[Illustration, depicting Zeus (Jupiter) seated upon an eagle.]

EDITED BY ROBERT SOUTHEY. LL.D.

WITH NOTES,
BY M.A. DWIGHT,
AUTHOR OF "GRECIAN AND ROMAN MYTHOLOGY."

NEW-YORK:
D. APPLETON & CO., 346 & 348 BROADWAY.
M.DCCC.LX.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849,
BY M.A. DWIGHT,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the
Southern District of New York.

TO THE
RIGHT HONORABLE
EAR