Nikolay Ivanovich Gnedich ( ) (February 2(13), 1784, Poltava - February 3(15), 1833, Saint Petersburg) was a Russia n poet and translator best known for his idyll The Fishers (1822). His translation of the Iliad (1807-29) is still the standard one. Alexander Pushkin assessed Gnedich's Iliad as ``a noble exploit worthy of Achilles'' and addressed to him an epistle starting with lines ``With Homer you conversed alone for days and nights...'' http://oldpoetry.com/poetry/3037/showline=1 Pushkin also penned an epigram in Homeric hexameter s, which unfavourably compares one-eyed Gnedich with the blind Greek poet:
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