Homer

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...

Her range of literary reference and comment is wide: as well as Richardson (whose Clarissa she unequivocally praises), it encompasses Blair , Sterne and Smollett as travel-writers, and Homer . Grant charges Samuel Johnson

Myths of the Odyssey represents one of Harrison's earliest efforts to use non-literary works of art, especially painted vases, to chart the formation of Greek myths. Here, she positions scenes from translated versions of Homer

This work is a sequel to Des Causes de la Corruption du Goût because it continues the project of defending Homer , though against a different adversary.

Writing about depictions by Homer and the Greek tragedians of madness, RP begins with the elusive source of the quotation which gave her her title (in English Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes...

Though she called her blog trivially personal, the titles printed here include Papa H (on Homer ) and On Anger (including motivating political anger) as well as The Annals of Pard (her cat).

Kate Summerscale writes that these diary entries magically remade the scenes that had passed, no longer dissecting her longings but instead allowing them to infuse her recollections . . . the diary could conjure up...

The letters published by Birch reflect an intellect dealing in literary as well as moral debate. To Thomas Burnet of KemnayCT wrote of religious and philosophical matters; he was her link to currents of...

Initially entitled A Fight over the Body of Homer, it features a disagreement between two sisters, one of whom is reading Homer and hankering after a more fulfilling and actively heroic pursuit...

Their move back to England was facilitated by a legacy of £5,000 from Anne's father. They bought the estate the previous year for £13,000 (including standing timber worth £3,280). AM sold the house, estate...