Homer and His Age
by Lang, Andrew
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Original dark blue-green cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt. Some light rubbing but a very good copy from the collection of
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About This Item
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1906. First edition. Frontispiece. 1 vols. 8vo. Original dark blue-green cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt. Some light rubbing but a very good copy from the collection of E. Hubert Litchfield with his bookplate. First edition. Frontispiece. 1 vols. 8vo. The second of three works devoted to the "Homeric question." Lang, a Greek scholar, devoted much of his studies to Homer. NCBEL 3:1442
Synopsis
In Homer and the Epic, ten or twelve years ago, I examined the literary objections to Homeric unity. These objections are chiefly based on alleged discrepancies in the narrative, of which no one poet, it is supposed, could have been guilty. The critics repose, I venture to think, mainly on a fallacy. We may style it the fallacy of "the analytical reader." The poet is expected to satisfy a minutely critical reader, a personage whom he could not foresee, and whom he did not address.
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- Bookseller
- The Old Mill Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19760
- Title
- Homer and His Age
- Author
- Lang, Andrew
- Format/Binding
- Frontispiece. 1 vols. 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - Original dark blue-green cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt. Some light rubbing but a very good copy from the collection of
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green and Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1906
- Keywords
- Reference | Andrew Lang
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