Vosmaer undertook the gigantic task of translating Homer into Dutch hexameters, and he lived just long enough to see this completed and revised.

Worsley] P. S. Worsley translated Homer into Spenserian stanzas.

In Sohrab and Rustum, Arnold attempted to imitate the "grandeur and rapidity" of Homer's style which he was to discuss in his lectures On Translating Homer (1861).

Born in Chaource near Troyes, he is known mostly for his love poems, but was also a good Greek scholar (he has translated Homer).

After the wars Pentti Saarikoski might initially have been a counterpart of the beat generation, but being well educated, he translated Homer, Joyce and many important English and American writers.

Pope himself had spent three years translating Homer.

When Robert Fagles translates Homer, legions of earlier translators are looking over his shoulder, along with Homer himself, a lively presence from 2,700 years ago.

Despite all difficulties, he said, "the business of translating Homer is irresistible."

Is it really unthinkable that there might be practical arguments for not putting children capable of translating Homer into English in the same classroom as children unable to write their own names?

According to Saarikoski, he was the only person in the world who had ever translated both Homer's and Joyce's Ulysses - a statement that probably holds true even today.