Homer

Standard Name: Homer

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Textual Production Agnes Mary Clerke
AMC published a work of classical scholarship, Familiar Studies in Homer.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Margaret Atwood
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.
“Start the Week”. BBC Radio 4.
Textual Production Alice Oswald
Nobody was a name famously used for himself by Homer 's Odysseus.
Textual Production Ann Taylor Gilbert
ATG later remembered that she was writing poetry at seven or eight. She also planned large literary projects
qtd. in
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert. Editor Gilbert, Josiah, H. S. King, 1874, 2 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N .
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including a prequel to Homer 's Iliad. Like Frances Burney , she tried to...
Textual Production Anne Dacier
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.
Spencer, Samia I., editor. Writers of the French Enlightenment I. Gale, 2005.
Textual Production Mrs Ross
MR published The Modern Calypso; or, Widow's Captivation, A Novel.
The non-modern Calypso alluded to is the island enchantress in Homer 's Odyssey, who keeps Odysseus in thrall for seven years. This novel...
Textual Production Anne Dacier
AD replied with Des Causes de la Corruption du Goût (offically approved on this day) to the critique of her L'Iliade d'Homère by Antoine Houdart de La Motte in his French verse adaptation and his...
Textual Production Anne Dacier
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...
Textual Production Christine Brooke-Rose
CBR published Amalgamemnon, a novel written in the future and conditional tenses, the subjunctive or imperative moods,
qtd. in
Birch, Sarah. Christine Brooke-Rose and Contemporary Fiction. Clarendon Press, 1994.
107n26
which relates a modern woman to the Homeric , or Æschylean , Trojan prophet Cassandra.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Birch, Sarah. Christine Brooke-Rose and Contemporary Fiction. Clarendon Press, 1994.
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Textual Production Anita Desai
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.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
4809 (2 June 1995): 20
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Textual Production Judith Sargent Murray
The future JSM wrote a history (probably fiction) when she was nine, which years later she disparaged as an imbecile effusion.
Skemp, Sheila L. Judith Sargent Murray. A Brief Biography with Documents. Bedford Books, 1998.
95
As she grew up she became prolific in letters and in occasional...
Textual Production Rosemary Sutcliff
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...
Textual Production Alexander Pope
AP published the long-awaited first four books of his translation of Homer 's Iliad.
Lavoie, Chantel Michelle. Poems by Eminent Ladies: A Study of an Eighteenth-Century Anthology. University of Toronto, 1999.
164n43
Textual Production H. D.
Her admirer Harold P. Collins persuaded her to omit a very bad paraphrase of Homer in sketchy free verse.
qtd. in
Guest, Barbara. Herself Defined: The Poet H.D. and Her World. Collins, 1985.
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Textual Production Freya Stark
The title echoes a phrase from Keats 's sonnet On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer.

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