The Odyssey

The Odyssey

Homer. tr. Alexander Pope

New York: American Book Exchange, 1880

HathiTrust

1880

1855-06-13: "Wednesday 13. Began Part IV of Spinoza's Ethics. Began also to read Cumming for article in Westminster. We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's History of lnductive Sciences, the Odyssey and occasionally Heine's Reisebilder. I began the second Book of the Iliad in Greek this morning." Diary 1854-1861 56
1855-06-[23]: "Friday and Saturday. Headache. Read Lucrezia Floriani. We are reading White's History of Selborne in the evening, with Boswell and the Odyssey." Diary 1854-1861 57
1880-01-01: "Kind Letter from Master of Balliol. "" Mrs.Pears. Drove to Hampstead in clear air and walked on the hill. Nihilists (XIXth Century). Piano. Monier Williams's India. Odyssey." Diary 1880 194
1880-01-08: "'Thick fog again. Drove to Sizer's. Wrote to Mr Cyples, thanking him for his letter and volume. Romanes, 'Theism'. Tiele, History of Religions. Odyssey." Diary 1880 195
1880-01-16: "Finished arrangement of Pamphlets. Edith. Burton's Queen Anne. Odyssey. Music." Diary 1880 195-196

Homer. tr. Alexander Pope, The Odyssey, George Eliot's Reading, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://www.georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/57463

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