Homer

Standard Name: Homer

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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 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 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.
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.
95
As she grew up she became prolific in letters and in occasional...
Textual Production Anna Seward
AS drafted the first three books of an epic poem entitled Telemachus, adapted from François Fénelon 's Télémaque, 1699. (She also wrote a defence of Pope 's Homer translations against the strictures of Joseph Spence .)
Lucas, Edward Verrall. A Swan and Her Friends. Methuen.
315-16
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 H. D.
Her admirer Harold P. Collins persuaded her to omit a very bad paraphrase of Homer in sketchy free verse.
Guest, Barbara. Herself Defined: The Poet H.D. and Her World. Collins.
148
Textual Production Elizabeth Smith
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...
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 Judith Kazantzis
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 .
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
(7 May 1999): 35
Judith Kazantzis. http://www.judithkazantzis.com/.
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
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.
230
Textual Production Judith Kazantzis
JK published her translation from the ninth book of Homer 's Odyssey, entitled In Cyclops' Cave.
Judith Kazantzis. http://www.judithkazantzis.com/.
Textual Production Freya Stark
The title echoes a phrase from Keats 's sonnet On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer.
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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