This title, Homer, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Views series, examines the major works of Homer through full-length critical essays by expert literary critics. In addition, this title features a short biography on Homer, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.
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Gr 9 Up-To offer students such delicious meals (Homer and Homeric criticism) cooked down to pabulum is offensive. This slim research and study guide, which includes biographical data, thematic analyses of both The Iliad and The Odyssey, and a couple of bibliographies, tries to be intellectual and nonreader compliant at the same time. It begins with a promising introduction but whatever value it may have quickly evaporates into some kind of quasi-watered-down reference work. Are there actually students capable of following "Andrew Ford on Poetry and Belatedness" or "W. B. Stanford on the Ambiguity of the Odysseus Figure" even in these predigested forms, but incapable of following the basic plot of Homer's epics? Recommend the "Modern Critical Views" series (Chelsea) or the "Twentieth Century Views" (Prentice Hall) to students who want analytical articles in one volume.
Herman Sutter, Saint Agnes Academy, Houston, TX
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