Homer
Subtitle: a collection of critical essays
By: edited by George Steiner and Robert Fagles.
Contributors: Fagles, Robert.
Series: A spectrum book: Twentieth century views -- S-TC-15
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Published: 1962
Place of publication: Englewood Cliffs, N.J
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 178
Subjects: Homer -- Criticism and interpretation
Notes: 78071
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Homer and the scholars / George Steiner -- Homer and Shakespeare / Leo Tolstoy -- Homer or Virgil? / Ezra Pound -- Odysseus scar / Erich Auerbach -- Telemachos remembers / Edwin Muir -- Fire and other elements / Cedric H. Whitman -- Homer / Albert B. Lord -- The shield of Achilles / W. H. Auden -- Odysseus did not die in Ithaca -- Ernst Bloch -- To narrate or describe? / Georg Lukács -- Nearing again the legendary isle / C. Day Lewis -- The sirens and the temptation of knowledge / Gabriel Germain -- The silence of the sirens / Franz Kafka -- Helen / Rachel Bespaloff -- Hellas / Robert Fitzgerald -- The name of Odysseus / George E. Dimock, Jr. -- The untypical hero / W. B. Stanford -- Ulysses / Robert Graves -- Preface to homer and the aether / John Cowper Powys -- The authoress of the Odyssey / Robert Graves “Metis … outis” / W. D. Snodgrass -- Translator’s note / T. E. Shaw -- James Joyce : an encounter with Homer / Frank Budgen -- Ithaka / C. P. Cavafy -- Epilogue : Homer and the writers / Robert Fagles -- The Argonauts / D. H. Lawrence -- Notes on the Editors and Authors -- Further Reading.