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Homer
Standard Name: Homer
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Gillian Allnutt | Adam Thorpe
picked this as a book of the year for the Times Literary Supplement: Allnutt's wonderful poems allow in ever more silence, figured on the page by a double space between lines and... |
Textual Production | Margaret Atwood | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Penelope Aubin | PA
's preface attacks the abominable Writings of the freethinker John Toland Welham, Debbie. “The Political Afterlife of Resentment in Penelope Aubin’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Life and Amorous Adventures of Lucinda</span> (1721)”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 20 , No. 1, pp. 49-63. 52 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Pat Barker | Here Barker retains the main lines of a story related by Homer
, but from the mostly unexplored women's viewpoint (where she is given a lead by Euripides
' powerful play The Trojan Women)... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Nina Bawden | Her protagonist, NB
says, is not herself, though the milieu comes from her own experience. The action takes place in a single day, the day Penelope has decided (thinking wryly of the exemplary wifely faithfulness... |
Textual Features | Aphra Behn | She praised Creech's version (the first available in English) as making ancient learning available to women, whose education (according to the scanted Customs of the Nation) Behn, Aphra. The Works of Aphra Behn. Editor Todd, Janet, William Pickering. 1: 25 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw | There follows a fighting critical Dissertation Respecting Patrons and Dedications, which covers the issues of male disrespect for female authors, the tyranny of critics, and over-insistence on moral instruction (with Hannah More
's Coelebs... |
Textual Production | Christine Brooke-Rose | CBR
published Amalgamemnon, a novel written in the future and conditional tenses, the subjunctive or imperative moods, Birch, Sarah. Christine Brooke-Rose and Contemporary Fiction. Clarendon Press. 107n26 “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. Birch, Sarah. Christine Brooke-Rose and Contemporary Fiction. Clarendon Press. 230 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Browne | FB
began writing at the age of seven, when, inspired by her great and strange love of poetry, she attempted to re-write The Lord's Prayer in verse. Browne, Frances. The Star of Attéghéi; the Vision of Schwartz; and Other Poems. Edward Moxon. xvi-xvii |
Literary responses | Frances Browne | George Croly
in the Dublin Review also focused on FB
's blindness rather than on her writing. He reprinted the book's preface almost in its entirety as one of several other case studies on the... |
Anthologization | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | For a young woman who had never attended university (as she of course could not at this time) to offer a translation from a classical language was both courageous and confident. It was a long... |
Literary responses | Mildred Cable | The reviews of the Through Jade Gate were generally favourable. Lewis Gannett
of the New York Herald Tribune enacted a victory over the impulse to condescend: Three white-haired spinsters, preaching as they went—and they tell... |
Education | Maria Callcott | She was, she said, mainly self-educated from the books which were all around her. (She read Pope
's Homer
at nine.) She studied Sanskrit, Persian, and Icelandic as an adult. She later believed firmly that... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Carson | AC
's starting-point is the poem about Geryon by the Greek lyric poet Stesichoros
or Stesichorus, whose surviving writings are so gnomic and fragmentary that every statement about them remains hesitant and uncertain. Stesichoros is... |
Literary responses | Sarah Chapone | Mary Delany
said SCwould shine in an assembly composed of Tully
s, Homer
s, and Milton
s. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Timeline
Later 8th century BC: This time probably saw the genesis of Homer's...
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Later 8th century BC
This time probably saw the genesis of Homer's Iliad, though few dates are more hotly argued over, and the very existence of Homer as a person who created (traditional, formulaic, oral) epicpoems is arguable.
1598: George Chapman published the first seven...
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1598
George Chapman
published the first seven books of his translation of Homer
's Iliad, the first English version done direct from Greek; he finished the Iliad in 1608 and the whole of Homer in 1616.
By September 1791: William Cowper published, with Joseph Johnson,...
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By September 1791
William Cowper
published, with Joseph Johnson
, his blank-versetranslations of Homer
's Iliad and Odyssey: a version designed to supersede Pope
's translation in heroic couplets.
1870: The German archaeologist Herman Schliemann...
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1870
The German archaeologist Herman Schliemann
began to dig at Hissarlik in Turkey, on the site of Mycenean Troy (which he believed to be the Troy of Homer
's Iliad).
1897: Samuel Butler published The Authoress of...
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1897
Samuel Butler
published The Authoress of the Odyssey, a bookcalculated to offend the entire establishment of imperial Britain with its claim that the second great character-building Greek epic had been written by a woman.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
1946: Critic Erich Auerbach published, in German,...
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1946
Critic Erich Auerbach
published, in German, the influential study which became in its English translation, 1953, Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature. He wrote it at Istanbul, as a Jewish refugee...
February 2007: Social anthropologist Mary Douglas published...
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February 2007
Social anthropologist Mary Douglas
published a brief study of literary composition entitled Thinking in Circles: An Essay on Ring Composition.
By November 2017: Classical scholar Emily Wilson (daughter...
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By November 2017
Classical scholar Emily Wilson
(daughter and grand-daughter of English-literature scholars Katherine Duncan-Jones
and Elsie Duncan-Jones
) became the first woman ever to translate the whole of Homer
's Odyssey into English.
Texts
Homer,. L’Iliade d’Homère. Translator Dacier, Anne, Rigaud, 1711.
Homer,. L’Odyssée d’Homère. Translator Dacier, Anne, Rigaud, 1716.
Homer,. The Iliad of Homer. Translator Pope, Alexander, Bernard Lintott, 1720.