Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

• Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, [1962]
• ©1962

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Details

Additional Authors

• Steiner, George, 1929-2020
• Fagles, Robert

Description

x, 178 pages; 21 cm

Summary

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

Series Statement

Twentieth century views ; S-TC-15

Uniform Title

Twentieth century views ; S-TC-15.

Subject

• Homer > Criticism and interpretation
• Homer
• Epic poetry, Greek > History and criticism
• Epic poetry, Greek

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-178).

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.

ISBN

• 0133945510
• 9780133945515

LCCN

62016890

OCLC

• ocm00965059
• 965059
• SCSB-116311

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library