Homer: The Poetry of the Past

by Andrew Laughlin Ford and Andrew Ford

Book Overview

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 examines these questions in the light of Homeric poetry. Through fresh readings of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and referring to other early...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501740652
• ISBN13: 9781501740657
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher