The work was published in six quarto volumes, and had more than six hundred subscribers, at six guineas a copy: the amount realized by Pope on the first and subsequent issues was upwards of five thousand pounds--an unprecedented payment of bookseller to author in that day.
VALUE OF THE TRANSLATION .-- This work, in spite of the criticism of exact scholars, has retained its popularity to the present time.

Chapman's Homer has been already referred to.

Since the days of Pope numerous authors have tried their hands upon Homer, translating the whole or a part.

Among these is a very fine poem by Cowper, in blank verse, which is praised by the critics, but little read.

Lord Derby's translation is distinguished for its prosaic accuracy.