Homer

One month before writing this poem Elizabeth Smith met Mary Hunt , with whom she was soon maintaining a scholarly correspondence. In the earliest letter which Bowdler prints (written on 7 July 1792), Smith touches...

AD further pursued her defence both of Homer himself and of her treatment of him, in her expanded and revised second edition of her Iliad translation in 1719. There, in Quelques Réflexions sur la Préface...

CBR published Amalgamemnon, a novel written in the future and conditional tenses, the subjunctive or imperative moods, which relates a modern woman to the Homeric , or Æschylean , Trojan prophet Cassandra.

JK published a book-length sequence of poems in many voices from classical epic: The Odysseus Poems: Fictions on the Odyssey of Homer, with etchings by Jacqueline Morreau .

The title echoes a phrase from Keats 's sonnet On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer.

AD published Journey to Ithaca, a novel classified by the American Library of Congress as religious fiction: its title alludes to the hero's homeward journey in Homer 's Odyssey.

JK published her translation from the ninth book of Homer 's Odyssey, entitled In Cyclops' Cave.

The year after RS died, three strikingly different posthumous books by her appeared:Black Ships Before Troy. The Story of the Iliad, which retells Homer 's epic poem in novel form; The Minstrel and...

AP published the long-awaited first four books of his translation of Homer 's Iliad.

No copy of the first edition is known to be extant. The extremely long title continues An Accurate New Spelling Dictionary and Complete English Expositor: containing a much larger collection of words than any book...

ATG later remembered that she was writing poetry at seven or eight. She also planned large literary projects including a prequel to Homer 's Iliad. Like Frances Burney , she tried to...

MR published The Modern Calypso; or, Widow's Captivation, A Novel.

AMC published a work of classical scholarship, Familiar Studies in Homer.

MA published one of the two opening titles in Canongate 's Myths series, a feminist retelling of Homer 's Odyssey entitled The Penelopiad, The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus.

AD tackled the summit of classical translation with her French rendering of Homer 's Iliad: L'Iliade d'Homère, traduite en françois avec des remarques.