Tribute
Patrick Kavanagh evoked the translations' crisp and readable character in a poem "On Looking into E. V. Rieu's Homer":
- "In stubble fields the ghosts of corn are
- The important spirits the imagination heeds.
- Nothing dies; there are no empty
- Spaces in the cleanest-reaped fields."
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