Homer : The Poetry of the Past / Andrew Ford.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Author's Note -- Introduction -- 1. The Genre: Traditional Definitions of Epic -- 2. The Poem: Homer's Muses and the Unity of Epic -- 3. The Poet: Tradition, Transmission, and Time -- 4. The Text: Signs of Writing in Homer -- 5. Poetry: The Voice of Song -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- General Index
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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 ...
In English.
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