Concanen, Matthew, editor. The Flower-Piece. Walthoe.
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Textual Features | Anne Dacier | She insists on admiring the presumed simplicity of manners in the Homeric age in preference to modern, civilized, sophisticated society. Her key image for Homer
's style—of wild, luxuriant, varied growth, the opposite of a... |
Textual Features | Ursula K. Le Guin | The trouble comes from a sorcerer, Cob, an old enemy of Ged, who has found a way to evade death. All over the Earthsea world people are obsessed with the idea of living for ever... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Teft | She praises Pope
, reproves Richardson
for his second part of Pamela (Mr B., she says, is no reward for Pamela's virtue), and notes that women's tea-table conversation includes acute comment on authors. She offers... |
Textual Features | Clara Reeve | |
Textual Features | Emma Tennant | She describes her father's house on the island (set just above the bay where in Homer
's Odyssey Ulysses met Nausicaa), and a number of local characters like Maria the cook and her husband Thodoros. |
Textual Features | Anne Francis | An Argument explains the poem's source in Plutarch. AF
's hero, whose father was an associate of Alexander the Great
, is dead after many vicissitudes. His ashes make a triumphal progress by sea from... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins | Her protagonist, Theresa Morven, has until three years before the story opens been buried in a French convent at the behest of her stepmother, whom, however, she steadfastly refuses to hate. (Her own mother died... |
Textual Features | Jane Loudon | The introductory chapter opens with Mrs Seymour's two daughters running into difficulties with synchronicity. One is astonished that Homer
and Solomon
were at least near-contemporaries; the other could not think who was king of France... |
Textual Features | Judith Cowper Madan | |
Textual Features | Jane Ellen Harrison | In Prolegomena Harrison argues against the dominant contemporary thesis that Greek religion was based originally and primarily on Homer
's Olympian myths. Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press. 164-5 |
Reception | Anne Dacier | This translation made its debut at a time of renewed struggle in the querelle of the ancients and moderns. This debate had arisen in the 1680s, with Boileau
maintaining the superiority of ancient culture and... |
Reception | Sarah Lewis | Sappho was well-received, though perhaps not quite to the extent SL
imagined. She wrote to a friend in 1877, The British press has placed me on a plane with Shakespeare
—the highest position accorded to... |
Publishing | Ruth Padel | In the same years as launching herself as a poet RP
began publishing as an academic critic. From her base in classical scholarship she turned her critical attention in 1985 towards the literature of modern... |
Performance of text | Timberlake Wertenbaker | A play for young people by TW
opened at the “My Father, Odysseus, Interview with Timberlake Wertenbaker”. Unicorn. |
Occupation | Frances Arabella Rowden | FAR
was clearly a key element, perhaps the key element, in the success of the Hans Place school. She taught the general curriculum there for nearly twenty-five years, from its founding until 1818, and she... |
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