The Poetry of Homer Edited with an

S.E. Bassett's classic work The Poetry of Homer investigates the rhetorical techniques that enable the Iliad and the Odyssey speak to both ancient and modern audiences. Somewhat neglected in the decades after its posthumous publication in 1938, it has become an immensely influential work and has left its mark on a generation of Classicists.

Samuel Eliot Bassett was professor at the University of Vermont from 1905 until his death in 1936.

Preface to the first edition

vii

Foreword to the second edition

ix

Introduction

xi

Editor's note

xxxi

An Important Homeric Problem and Its Postulates

1

(25)

The Epic Illusion

26

(31)

The Epic Illusion (Continued)

57

(24)

The Breaking of the Epic Illusion

81

(33)

The Poet and His Audience

114

(27)

The Poet as Singer

141

(32)

Homer the Poetic Demiurge

173

(54)

The Poet as Realist and as Idealist

227

(20)

Notes

247

(14)

Index

261

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The Poetry of Homer Edited with an Introduction by Bruce Heiden

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