Homer The Poetry of the Past

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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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca Cornell University Press 1994
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