Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 10, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780521862653
Subjects: Poetry & poets: 19th century; Literature and history; Great Britain; English literature; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Epic literature; Eastern Europe; History; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Poetry; Literary Criticism & Collections / Eastern European; Eastern European; 19th century; History and criticism
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.