Example sentences for: fagles

How can you use “fagles” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The new translation of Homer's The Odyssey has whipped up so much fervor that Paul Gray in Time has proclaimed the existence of the "Fagles phenomenon."

  • Robert Fagles, a Princeton classicist, translated The Iliad in 1990 and sold an astonishing 140,000 paperback copies of his version.

  • Gray attributes Fagles' popularity to his simple, straightforward language.

  • 1: Evita (Hollywood Pictures); Portrait of a Lady (Gramercy); Life of Picasso, Volume 2: 1907-1917 , by John Richardson, with the collaboration of Marilyn McCully (Random House); Once Upon a Mattress (The Broadhurst Theatre on Broadway); Hamlet (Columbia); and The Odyssey , by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles (Viking).

  • Other reviewers place Fagles' work in the same league as Fitzgerald's and Lattimore's classic translations.


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