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Homer : a collection of critical essays / edited by George Steiner and Robert Fagles.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Twentieth century views ; S-TC-15.Publisher: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, [1962]Copyright date: ©1962Description: x, 178 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 883
LOC classification:
  • PA4037.A5 S7
Available additional physical forms:
  • Also issued online.
Contents:
Introduction : Homer and the scholars / George Steiner -- Homer and Shakespeare / Leo Tolstoy -- Homer or Virgil? / Ezra Pound -- Odysseus' scar / Erich Auerbach -- Telemachos remembers / Edwin Muir -- Fire and other elements / Cedric H. Whitman -- Homer / Albert B. Lord -- The shield of Achilles / W.H. Auden -- Odysseus did not die in Ithaca / Ernst Bloch -- To narrate or describe? / Georg Lukacs -- Nearing again the legendary isle / C. Day Lewis -- The Sirens and the temptations of knowledge / Gabriel Germain -- The silence of the Sirens / Franz Kafka -- Helen / Rachel Bespaloff -- Hellas / Robert Fitzgerald -- The name of Odysseus / George E. Dimock, Jr. -- The untypical hero / W.B. Stanford -- Ulysses / Robert Graves -- Preface to Homer and the Aether / John Cowper Powys -- The authoress of the Odyssey / Robert Graves -- 'Metis ... Outis' / W.D. Snodgrass -- Translator's note / T.E. Shaw -- James Joyce : an encounter with Homer / Frank Budgen -- Ithaka / C.P. Cavafy -- Epilogue : Homer and the writers / Robert Fagles -- The Argonauts / D.H. Lawrence.
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Summary: A selection of critical essays by Joyce, Tolstoy, Kafka, Pound and others.
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Books Academic Resource Center at Levitt General Stacks (LOWER Level) PA 4037 .A5 S7 1962 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 2442

Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-178).

Introduction : Homer and the scholars / George Steiner -- Homer and Shakespeare / Leo Tolstoy -- Homer or Virgil? / Ezra Pound -- Odysseus' scar / Erich Auerbach -- Telemachos remembers / Edwin Muir -- Fire and other elements / Cedric H. Whitman -- Homer / Albert B. Lord -- The shield of Achilles / W.H. Auden -- Odysseus did not die in Ithaca / Ernst Bloch -- To narrate or describe? / Georg Lukacs -- Nearing again the legendary isle / C. Day Lewis -- The Sirens and the temptations of knowledge / Gabriel Germain -- The silence of the Sirens / Franz Kafka -- Helen / Rachel Bespaloff -- Hellas / Robert Fitzgerald -- The name of Odysseus / George E. Dimock, Jr. -- The untypical hero / W.B. Stanford -- Ulysses / Robert Graves -- Preface to Homer and the Aether / John Cowper Powys -- The authoress of the Odyssey / Robert Graves -- 'Metis ... Outis' / W.D. Snodgrass -- Translator's note / T.E. Shaw -- James Joyce : an encounter with Homer / Frank Budgen -- Ithaka / C.P. Cavafy -- Epilogue : Homer and the writers / Robert Fagles -- The Argonauts / D.H. Lawrence.

A selection of critical essays by Joyce, Tolstoy, Kafka, Pound and others.

Also issued online.

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