364 Pages
    by Routledge

    368 Pages
    by Routledge

    First Published in 1994. Part of a collection on Classical Heritage, this is a collection of Homer's influence from the Middle ages to the twentieth century. This series will present articles, some appearing for the first time, some for the first time in English, dealing with the major points of influence in literature and, where possible, music, painting, and the plastic arts, of the greatest of ancient writers. This volume includes essays on Chapman, Milton, Racine, Pope, neo-classical painter Angelica Kauffmann, Goethe, Keats, Gladstone and Tennyson, Tolstoy, Cavafy, Rilke, Joyce, Yourcenar, Kazantzakis, Seferis, East German poet Erich Arendt, and recent Nobel-prize winner Derek Walcott.

    ILLUSTRATIONS, SERIES PREFACE, PREFACE, INTRODUCTION, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, CONTRIBUTORS, THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE, ENGLISH RENAISSANCE, SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, NINETEENTH CENTURY, TWENTIETH CENTURY

    Biography

    Edited by Katherine Callen King