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The Songs of Homer

Book by G. S. Kirk; Cambridge University Press, 1962

Subjects:

Homer

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

THE SONGS OF HOMER -ii- THE SONGS OF HOMER BY G. S. KIRK, F.B.A. Reader in Greek in the University...as a section between pp. 406 and 409. -xii- PREFACE The Songs of Homer are the Iliad and Odyssey. I have tried to develop a comprehensive...
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Homer and the Epic

Book by Andrew Lang; Longmans Green, 1893

Subjects:

Epic Poetry--History And Criticism, Homer--Criticism And Interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...ii. 53 . Popular songs and riddles, and...were attributed to Homer, as also were the...declares that Homer wrote a sequel of songs and rhapsodies...stitching or weaving songs, compile mere...centos out of Homer. Nor were rhapsodes...
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The Unity of Homer

Book by John A. Scott; Biblo and Tannen, 1965

Subjects:

Homer

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...This is the "scattered songs of Homer," which has given rise...preserver of the Homeric songs and the creator of the Homer ic epics. The theory...does not comprehend how Homer sprang from and through small songs will waste his time in...
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Homer in English Criticism: The Historical Approach in the Eighteenth Century

Book by Donald M. Foerster; Yale University Press, 1947

Subjects:

Criticism--History, Homer--Criticism And Interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...believe the name "Homer" was applied to...rhapsodists" composed songs about the siege...lead. Speaking of Homer, he says, "He wrote a sequel of Songs and Rhapsodies...Prince of Poets, old Homer, if we may trust...Ballad-singer, who writ Songs of the Siege of...
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From Mycenae to Homer

Book by T. B. L. Webster; Methuen, 1958

Subjects:

Art, Mycenaean, Civilization, Mycenaean, Greek Poetry--History And Criticism, Homer

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

FROM MYCENAE TO HOMER FROM MYCENAE TO HOMER T. B. L. Webster Professor of Greek University College...136 6 POETRY BETWEEN THE FALL OF MYCENAE AND THE TIME OF HOMER Introduction: Aeolisms: Linguistic forms: Cremation: Iron...

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Homer Revisited: Anne le Fevre Dacier's Preface to Her Prose Translation of the Iliad in Early Eighteenth-Century France

Journal article by Fabienne Moore; Studies in the Literary Imagination, Vol. 33, 2000

Subjects:

Dacier, Anne Le Fevre--Translations and translating, Epic poetry, Classical--Translations and translating, French literature--18th century, Homer--Translations and translating, Iliad (Poem)--Translations and translating, Translations--18th century

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...prose, revealed primarily in the Songs, the Psalms, and the Prophets...at the origin of all poetry, Homer held for Dacier the place of...how it was that the poetry of Homer should become the next great...published an Iliad in twelve songs with a "Discours sur Homere...
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Listening to the Sirens: Musical Technologies of Queer Identity from Homer to Hedwig

Journal article by Sophie Fuller; Women & Music, Vol. 11, 2007

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Listening to the Sirens: Musical Technologies of Queer Identity from Homer to Hedwig (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...breadth of her journey is suggested by the alliterative "from Homer to Hedwig." Homers Odyssey tells the story of the Sirens and...following a useful explanatory introduction. The first chapter, "Songs of the Sirens," subtitled "Desire," investigates the disruptive...
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The Use of Dialect in African-American Spirituals, Popular Songs, and Folk Songs

Journal article by John Graziano; Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 24, 2004

Subjects:

Dialect poetry--Analysis, Dialect poetry--Usage, Spirituals (Songs)--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

...Nevin (1862-1901), and Sidney Homer (1864-1953). These songs were performed frequently by many...singers of the day, including Louise Homer, Ernestine Schumann-Heink, and...spirituals and freely composed songs that could be sung in venues that...
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How Music Matters: Some Songs of Robert Johnson in the Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher

Journal article by Catherine A. Henze; Comparative Drama, Vol. 34, 2000

Subjects:

Beaumont, Francis--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Composers--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Dramatic music--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Dramatists--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Fletcher, John--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Johnson, Robert (Composer)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Rape--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Sex--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Songs--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...questioning this attribution. (29) William Byrd, Psalmes, Sonets, Songs of sadness and pietie, made into Musicke of five parts (London...Twayne Publishers, 1986), 122-41; Ian Spink, English Song, 15-71; Homer Urlich and Paul Pisk, A History of Music and Musical Style...
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Roger J. Porter. Self-Same Songs: Autobiographical Performances and Reflections

Journal article by Regenia Gagnier; Biography, Vol. 26, 2003

Subjects:

Self-Same Songs: Autobiographical Performances and Reflections (Book)--Reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Epilogue situates himself as a "brother-in-writing" (236) in a genealogy that stretches from Homer to Benjamin Franklin to Barbara Harrison. Porters Self-Same Songs is what one might call a pedagogic criticism, the kind of criticism you would write if...

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Homer: The Blind Bard

Magazine article by Rachelle Doorley, Judith King; School Arts, Vol. 104, January 2005

Subjects:

Greek sculpture--Influence, Homer--Appreciation, Homer--Portrayals, Roman sculpture--Appreciation, Roman sculpture--Works, Sculpture, Greek--Influence, Sculpture, Roman--Appreciation, Sculpture, Roman--Works

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Doorley , Judith King Homer, the legendary Greek poet famed...composed and recited poetic songs and stories of historic or cultural...there is little evidence that Homer was blind, some believe his...overjoyed. * Others believe that Homer earned this nickname for reciting...
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Winslow HOMER THE ILLUSTRATOR: His Wood Engravings, 1857-1888

Magazine article by Mark M. Johnson; Arts & Activities, Vol. 130, October 2001

Subjects:

Homer, Winslow--Exhibitions, Painters, American--Exhibitions, Wood-engraving--Exhibitions

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...foreshadowing trends of the future. At the age of 19, the young Homer was apprenticed to John H. Bufford, a well-known Boston lithographer...portraits from photographs, and illustrating covers for popular songs. While the position may have been uninspiring and routine, the...
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For Everyman, by Everyman: In Creating Himself According to the Nation's Enthusiasm for His Songs, Irving Berlin Helped Create a National Identity

Magazine article by David Schiff; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 277, March 1996

Subjects:

American songs--Criticism and interpretation, Berlin, Irving--Criticism and interpretation, Composers--Criticism and interpretation, Lyric writing (Popular music)--Criticism and interpretation, Lyricists--Criticism and interpretation, Popular music--History, Songs, American--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Entire Library

...but throws up his hands in attempting to find Berlins musical fingerprints. Berlin was the Homer of the pop tune, and also its Zelig. Perhaps the early songs provide a key to his ubiquitous anonymity; in any case they reveal something about our evolving...
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In the Wake of Homer

Magazine article by John Elsom; World and I, Vol. 15, November 2000

Subjects:

Mediterranean region, Odyssee 2001 (Play)--Planning, Popular culture, Sailing ships--Usage, Theater--History, Voyages and travels--Planning

Collections: Entire Library

...husband to return, has been celebrated in songs, tapestries, ceramics, temple paintings...c. 458 b.c.), is based on episodes from Homer. Aeschylus wrote plays as a young man in...ancient instruments plays Algerian love songs. In the main theater the performance...
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Swan Songs

Magazine article by Steven G. Kellman; American Scholar, Vol. 68, Autumn 1999

Subjects:

Last words--Appreciation, Terminally ill persons--Quotations, Terminally ill--Quotations

Collections: Entire Library

...for canonization was not impaired by her failure to survive beyond thirty. John Keats wrote "On First Looking into Chapmans Homer" at twenty, and, dying at twenty-five, did not linger for a second look. The example of Thomas Chatterton, who began writing...

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A Homer Winner

Newspaper article by Brian Reade; The Mirror (London, England), November 27, 1996

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...they will ever achieve. Failure. When the terminally-thick Homer is forced to re-take a school exam and says: "Okay brain. You...their heads, put on frocks, show their bottoms and sing macho songs after the match to disguise their real reason for playing the...
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A Wife's Place in the Homer; Waiting Wife: Penelope (Penny Downie, Centre) Retells the Story of Her Husband Odysseus's Journey from Her Viewpoint

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), August 3, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Eurycleia, Odysseuss too faithful nurse. And the heroes? In Homer, Penelopes maids connive with her suitors and arekilled on Odysseuss...their simple but beautifully presented movement captivates,as songs of slavery and oppression make us reconsider this great myth...
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A Wife's Place in the Homer; Waiting Wife: Penelope (Penny Downie, Centre) Retells the Story of Her Husband Odysseus's Journey from Her Viewpoint

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), August 3, 2007

Subjects:

Theater--Theater reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...and Eurycleia,Odysseuss too faithful nurse. And the heroes? In Homer, Penelopes maids connive with her suitors and arekilled on Odysseuss...their simple but beautifully presented movement captivates,as songs of slavery and oppression make us reconsider this great myth...
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On Yer Bike, Homer; Wasted: Simpsons Star Dan Castellaneta (Centre) with Joe Liss, and John Rubano

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), November 9, 2007

Subjects:

Theater--Theater reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...musical. The man known to millions the worldover as the voice of Homer Simpson is in fact a slim, unassuminglooking,middle-aged man...unremarkable singingvoice, which is apt for a bunch of unremarkable songs that limply parodyvarious genres. A mighty Doh all round. Until...
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It's a Joly Holiday with You, Dad; CANADA'S HOMER SIMPSON: Comedian Dom Joly with His Six-Year-Old Daughter, Parker, and Their Rented Speedboat at Port Carling GOLDEN GLOW: Sunset on the Lake and, above, Hailing the Steamboat Segwun CAMP COOKS: The Children Roast Marshmallows ROOTS OF HAPPINESS: Jackson with His Sister on the Lakeshore and, Left, Sampling a Local Root Beer

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), January 27, 2008

Subjects:

Carbonated beverages, Comedians, Soft drink industry, Soft drinks

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...stunning interpretive dances. And one of theolder cousins discovered the bug spray makes a great flamethrower. Soon wereall singing songs and I have a weird nightmare feeling that Ive beenpress-ganged into the Scouts except ... Im really enjoying myself. Itsincredible...

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Homer

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...1962, repr. 1974); C. R. Beye, The Iliad, the Odyssey and the Epic Tradition (1966, repr. 1976); G. S. Kirk, The Songs of Homer (1962; repr. 1977); A. B. Lord, The Singer of Tales (1960, repr. 1978); W. A. Camps, An Introduction to Homer...

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