The Poetry of Homer
Hardcover, Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1938. First Edition. Good with no dust jacket.
Sound binding and hinges. Previous owner's book plate on front pastedown. Pages lightly tanned. Most pages are clean, but pp. 51-62 have pencilled notes in margin and occasional underlined passages. Cloth over boards has light edge rubbing with gilt lettering on spine faded. ; Posthumous publication of lectures prepared by the author but never delivered publicly. Chapters: An important Homeric problem and its postulates. The epic illusion. The breaking of the epic illusion. The poet and his audience. The poet as singer. Home the poetic demiurge. The poet as realist and idealist. Notes, index. ; Sather Classical Lectures; Vol. 15; 9.0" tall; 273 pages.
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