“Mr. Ezra Pound is the onelie begetter of this book. He suggested it, and he read the first part with Odyssean patience; his trenchant comments, well deserved, gave me the courage of my convictions, and I hope he will now find it a readable story, that is, a story which can be read aloud and heard without boredom.”
  — W. H. D. Rouse, p. v

Rouse’s modern prose translation of Homer’s Odyssey. First edition. A fine copy in a faded and spotted dust-jacket with a little edge-wear. Contemporary ink gift inscription to ffep. A number of contemporary newspaper clippings laid-in to the front and back of this book, each relating to either this translation, Rouse’s Story of Achilles, or other Homeric publications.