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Homer
Standard Name: Homer
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Textual Production | Agnes Mary Clerke | |
Textual Production | Margaret Atwood | |
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 . 1: 46 |
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 “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. Birch, Sarah. Christine Brooke-Rose and Contemporary Fiction. Clarendon Press, 1994. 230 |
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. 271 |
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 |
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. 148 |
Textual Production | Freya Stark | The title echoes a phrase from Keats
's sonnet On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer. |
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