Homer

The day was spent travelling from Glasgow to Inveraray. The writer throws in quotations and allusions (Edward Young , the Bible, Macpherson 's Ossian and Homer 's Odyssey, Sterne and Smollett

AG is a conscious artist as a letter-writer, playing with the influence not only of Richardson but also, in later years, of Hugh Blair 's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. The earliest letters...

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

Her admirer Harold P. Collins persuaded her to omit a very bad paraphrase of Homer in sketchy free verse.

On holidays her father taught his children to shoot with arrows and to play on pipes which they had made themselves, to light fires, and boys and girls alike, how to row, to swim, to...

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

In Prolegomena Harrison argues against the dominant contemporary thesis that Greek religion was based originally and primarily on Homer 's Olympian myths. In her chapter The Demonology of Ghosts and Sprites and Bogeys...

She begins this book with a method not unlike that of Experimental Lives from Cato to George Sand. Her first chapter, Pioneers in Conversion, centres its topic on individuals, relating the sudden transformation...

She was without formal education. She told a cousin that her favourite reading had been the Bible ever since she was a girl. Historian Susan E. Whyman argues that it was through epistolary...

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 .

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

LEL recalled devising poetry during her early childhood in East Barnet, where she moved at the age of seven: I cannot remember the time when composition in some shape or other was not a...

Among the subjects most often canvassed at de Lambert's salon was the querelle des anciens et modernes (the battle of the ancients and moderns). Its leading figures (Anne Dacier , translator of Homer into...

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...

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).