Download or read book Homer's Original Genius written by Kirsti Simonsuuri and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1979-03-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The querelle des anciens et des modernes - the question whether writers should imitate the classics or use literary forms which seemed more suited to their own era - had been debated in Europe since the earliest days of the Renaissance. This book analyses the development of the querelle following the adoption of the argument of the modernist faction of seventeenth-century France.