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Author Steiner, George, 1929- editor

Title Homer : a collection of critical essays / edited by George Steiner and Robert Fagles
Published Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, [1962]
©1962

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 MELB  880.1 H7662 Z/Sth  AVAILABLE
Description x, 178 pages ; 21 cm
Series Twentieth century views ; S-TC-15
Twentieth century views ; S-TC-15
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
Summary A selection of critical essays by Joyce, Tolstoy, Kafka, Pound and others
Notes "February 1990"--T.p
"Rand library collection"--Cover
Supported by the US. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute of Mental Health
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-178)
Notes Also issued online
Subject 880-01 Homer -- Criticism and interpretation.
SUBJECT 880-01 Όμηρος, 8ος αιώνας π.Χ -- Κριτική και ερμηνεία
Subject Homer -- Criticism and interpretation.
Homer.
Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism.
Health insurance -- United States.
Preferred provider organizations (Medical care) -- United States.
Author Fagles, Robert, editor
United States. Department of Health and Human Services.
National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.)
Rand Corporation.
LC no. 62016890
ISBN 0833009850