Milton and Homer: "Written to Aftertimes"

by Gregory Machacek

This is the first full-length study of the relation between Milton and Homer, arguably Milton's most important precursor. It is also the first study of a major interpoetic relationship that is responsive to the historicist critical enterprise, which has been dominant within literary study for the past 30 years, and engages the work of theorists of canon formation such as Barbara Herrnstein Smith and John Guillory. Most studies of the relation between...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820704474
• ISBN13: 9780820704470
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 203 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"