Homer : The Poetry of the Past / / Andrew Ford.
Andrew Ford here addresses, in a manner both engaging and richly informed, the perennial questions of what poetry is, how it came to be, and what it is for. Focusing on the critical moment in Western literature when the heroic tales of the Greek oral tradition began to be preserved in writing, he ex...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca : : Cornell University Press,, 1992. ©1992. |
| Year of Publication: | 1992 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 225 p. ) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Author's Note
- Introduction
- 1. The Genre: Traditional Definitions of Epic
- 2. The Poem: Homer's Muses and the Unity of Epic
- 3. The Poet: Tradition, Transmission, and Time
- 4. The Text: Signs of Writing in Homer
- 5. Poetry: The Voice of Song
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- General Index