Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 19, 2009
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780521123570
Subjects: Literature & Fiction -- History & Criticism -- Criticism & Theory; Literature & Fiction -- Poetry -- Criticism; Literature & Fiction -- Poetry -- Single Authors -- British & Irish; Literature & Fiction -- World Literature -- British
First sentence: The Homeric question was set in train by the English traveller Robert Wood, whose 1769 Essay on the Original Genius and Writings of Homer initiated over two centuries of debate about the poet.