Homer

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.