In exploring the significance of Homer for the poetry of modern
Greece - benign shade or looming shadow? - Dr Ricks is tackling a
theme that has implications for the study of poetic influence in
general. In this 1989 book, he takes the work of Sikelianos, Cavafy
and Seferis and subjects a selection of poems to a careful
scrutiny. These poems are not imitations of Homer but fresh
engagements with Homeric themes, and comparison of the modern
versions with the original is found to be illuminating for the
poets' methods of composition. Dr Ricks does not lose sight of the
larger significance of his subject, and modern poets from outside
Greece - Eliot and Pound, in particular - find their way into the
discussion. All Greek is translated and the reader has no need to
be a specialist in modern or in ancient Greek to find this study
absorbing and instructive.
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