The Humour of Homer and Other Essays
The Humour of Homer and Other Essays

The Humour of Homer and Other Essays

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The Humour of Homer and Other Essays

The Humour of Homer and Other Essays

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The Humour of Homer and Other Essays

The Humour of Homer and Other Essays

$106.16 $53.05
Author: Butler, Samuel,1835-1902
Format: eBook
Language: English
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The Humour of Homer and Other Essays

The nucleus of this book is the collection of essays by Samuel Butler, which was originally published by Mr. Grant Richards in 1904 under the title Essays on Life, Art and Science, and reissued by Mr. Fifield in 1908. To these are now added another essay, entitled The Humour of Homer, a biographical sketch of the author kindly contributed by Mr. Henry Festing Jones, which will add materially to the value of the edition, and a portrait in photogravure from a photograph taken in 1889the period of the essays. From a photograph made by Pizzetta in Varallo in 1889. Emery Walker Ltd., ph. sc. The Humour of Homer was originally delivered as a lecture at the Working Mens College in Great Ormond Street on the 30th January, 1892, the day on which Butler first promulgated his theory of the Trapanese origin of the Odyssey in a letter to the Athenum. Later in the same year it was published with some additional matter by Messrs. Metcalfe and Co. of Cambridge. For the next five years Butler was engaged upon researches into the origin and authorship of the Odyssey, the results of which are embodied in his book The Authoress of the Odyssey, originally published by Messrs. Longman in 1897. Butler incorporated a good deal of The Humour of Homer into The Authoress of the Odyssey, but the section relating to the Iliad naturally found no place in the later work. For the sake of this alone The Humour of Homer deserves to be better known. Written as it was for an artisan audience and professing to deal only with one side of Homers genius, The Humour of Homer must not, of course, be taken as an exhaustive statement of Butlers views upon Homeric questions. It touches but lightly on important points, particularly regarding the origin and authorship of the Odyssey, which are treated at much greater length in The Authoress of the Odyssey. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 12651
Author: Butler, Samuel
Release Date: Jun 1, 2004
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Editor: Streatfeild, R. A. (Richard Alexander), 1866-1919

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