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Samuel Eliot Bassett's classic work The Poetry of Homer
investigates the rhetorical techniques that have made the Iliad and
the Odyssey speak to audiences throughout the ages. Combining a
sublime poetic sensitivity with thorough scholarship this work
offers original analyses of many topics, including the Homeric
narrator's presentation of his story, his evocation of character
through direct speech, the organization of speeches and
descriptions into vivd dramatic situations, the pacing and
emotional weight of similes and narratorial interventions, and the
expressive variation in rhythms and word-groupings. A prolific and
insightful contributor to Homeric scholarship, Bassett was invited
to deliver the Sather Classical Lecture at Berkeley, but he died
with the manuscript unpublished. This work, published posthumously
in 1938 as The Poetry of Homer, has left its mark on a generation
of classicists. Lexington is proud to bring such an important and
influential book back into print in this new edition, edited and
introduced by Bruce Heiden with a foreword by Greg Nagy.
Samuel Eliot Bassett's classic work The Poetry of Homer
investigates the rhetorical techniques that have made the Iliad and
the Odyssey speak to audiences throughout the ages. Combining a
sublime poetic sensitivity with thorough scholarship this work
offers original analyses of many topics, including the Homeric
narrator's presentation of his story, his evocation of character
through direct speech, the organization of speeches and
descriptions into vivd dramatic situations, the pacing and
emotional weight of similes and narratorial interventions, and the
expressive variation in rhythms and word-groupings. A prolific and
insightful contributor to Homeric scholarship, Bassett was invited
to deliver the Sather Classical Lecture at Berkeley, but he died
with the manuscript unpublished. This work, published posthumously
in 1938 as The Poetry of Homer, has left its mark on a generation
of classicists. Lexington is proud to bring such an important and
influential book back into print in this new edition, edited and
introduced by Bruce Heiden with a foreword by Greg Nagy.
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