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Language: en
Pages: 284
Authors: Andrew Ford
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-03-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Andrew Ford here addresses, in a manner both engaging and richly informed, the perennial questions of what poetry is, how it came to be, and what it is for. Foc
Why Homer Matters
Language: en
Pages: 318
Authors: Adam Nicolson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-11-18 - Publisher: Henry Holt and Company

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"Adam Nicolson writes popular books as popular books used to be, a breeze rather than a scholarly sweat, but humanely erudite, elegantly written, passionately f
Homer: The creation of the poems
Language: en
Pages: 438
Authors: Irene J. F. de Jong
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours
Language: en
Pages: 657
Authors: Gregory Nagy
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-01-10 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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What does it mean to be a hero? The ancient Greeks who gave us Achilles and Odysseus had a very different understanding of the term than we do today. Based on t
Gunslinger
Language: en
Pages: 232
Authors: Edward Dorn
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1989 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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Dorn's high-spirited, crazy-quilt, complex anti-epic is a masterful critique of late twentieth-century capitalism and is one of the great comic poems of America