Homer

Standard Name: Homer

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Literary responses Ann Radcliffe
Anna Seward , in letters which were to be published in AR 's lifetime, mixed her praise of her gothic oeuvre with some trenchant criticism.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999.
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Nathan Drake called Radcliffe the Shakespeare of Romance Writers...
Literary responses Rosemary Sutcliff
The Economist reviewed Black Ships, finding it intellectually taxing for children, but useful in sorting out some of Homer 's complications and digressions.
Lawton, Anthony. Rosemary Sutcliff. http://rosemarysutcliff.com/.
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...
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...
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/.
Though Homer and Cicero are connected chiefly with oral texts, the inclusion of Milton suggests that Delany...
Literary responses Virginia Woolf
Erich Auerbach chose a passage from early in To the Lighthouse, which he calls The Brown Stocking, to close his influential work Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, 1946 (which...
Literary responses Sappho
Despite the paucity of surviving material, Sappho (though not quite the earliest of the Greek lyric poets) is sometimes seen as heading the lyric tradition, as Homer heads the epic tradition.
Sappho, and Andrew R. Burn. Lyrics in the Original Greek. Translator Barnstone, Willis, New York University Press, 1965.
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Burn, Andrew R. et al. “Introduction”. Lyrics in the Original Greek, translated by. Willis Barnstone, New York University Press, 1965, p. xvii - xxxi.
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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...
Literary responses Alice Walker
This book was hammered by Michiko Kakutani in the New York Times as a compendium of inanities.
qtd. in
White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton, 2004.
457
In Britain the Sunday Telegraph more respectfully called it a modern take on the HomerOdyssey in which...
Occupation Florence Farr
The lecture proved quite popular, and Clifford's Inn had to turn people away. Over the following years, FF put on many such readings, performing works by Homer , Shelley , Yeats , Lady Gregory ...
Occupation Anne-Thérèse de Lambert
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...
Occupation Frances Arabella Rowden
FAR was clearly a key element, perhaps the key element, in the success of the Hans Place school. She taught the general curriculum there for nearly twenty-five years, from its founding until 1818, and she...
Occupation Ella K. Maillart
EKM went on from sailing as a girl at home to crewing for an English owner. At the beginning of 1922 her friend Miette acquired a 21-foot sloop named Perlette, which she and Kini sailed...
Performance of text Timberlake Wertenbaker
A play for young people by TW opened at the Unicorn Theatre: My Father Odysseus, which she insists is not an adaptation of Homer 's Odyssey.
“My Father, Odysseus, Interview with Timberlake Wertenbaker”. Unicorn.
Publishing Ruth Padel
In the same years as launching herself as a poet RP began publishing as an academic critic. From her base in classical scholarship she turned her critical attention in 1985 towards the literature of modern...

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