Homer

by Katherine Callen King

Overview

First Published in 1994. Part of a collection on Classical Heritage, this is a collection of Homer's influence from the Middle ages to the twentieth century. This series will present articles, some appearing for the first time, some for the first time in English, dealing with the major points of influence in literature and, where possible, music, painting, and the plastic arts, of the greatest of ancient writers. This volume includes essays on Chapman, Milton, Racine, Pope, neo-classical painter Angelica Kauffmann, Goethe, Keats, Gladstone and Tennyson, Tolstoy, Cavafy, Rilke, Joyce, Yourcenar, Kazantzakis, Seferis, East German poet Erich Arendt, and recent Nobel-prize winner Derek Walcott.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415763646
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/07/2015
Pages:	364
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Edited by Katherine Callen King

Table of Contents

Illustrations v

Series Preface vii

Preface ix

Introduction xi

Acknowledgements xxviii

Contributors xxx

The Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance Katherine Callen King 1

English Renaissance

Chapman's Seaven Bookes of the Iliades: Mirror for Essex John Channing Briggs 31

Seventeenth Century: Textual Overlapping and Delilah's Harlot Lap Mary Nyquist 49

Homeric Themes in Racine's Andromache and Iphigenie Noémi Hepp 73

Eighteenth Century

Homer's Iliad and Pope's Vile Forgery Kathryn L. Lynch 87

Angelica Kauffmann Albert Boime 105

Achilleis and Nausikaa: Goethe in Homer's World David Constantine 111

Nineteenth Century

Of Chapman's Homer and Other Books Bernice Slote 133

The Homeric Competitions of Tennyson and Gladstone Gerhard Joseph 143

Tolstoy and Homer F. T. Griffiths S. I Rabinowitz 155

Cavafy and Iliad 24: A Modern Alexandrian Interprets Homer Seth Schein 177

Twentieth Century

Kafka and the Sirens: Writing as Lethetic Reading Clayton Koelb 191

Homer's Sticks and Stones Hugh Kenner 209

An Approach to the Homeric Content of Joyce's 'Ulysses', Vivienne Koch 225

Achilles Awash in Sexual Politics Katherine Callen King 239

Kazantzakis' Odyssey: A Modern Rival to Homer Morton P. Levitt 255

Seferis's Myth of Return and Hellenism's Suspended Homecoming Artemis Leontis 265

Homer, Odysseus and the "Angel of History" Ernest Wichner 285

Derek Walcott's Omeros and Derek Walcott's Homer Oliver Taplin 311

Select Bibliography 325

Editorial Reviews

Three essays written for, and two others translated for the collection are among the 19 studies of the impact of the Iliad and the Odyssey on succeeding ages since the fifth century BC. Among the writers considered are George Chapman (who first translated Homer into English in 1598), Pope, Goethe, Tolstoy, Joyce, and recent Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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