Ebook {Epub PDF} The Songs Of Homer by Geoffrey S. Kirk

Shelves greek In this book, G.S Kirk seems to have set out to give a comprehensive portrait of Homeric studies as of He lays out what other scholars have said about various. Homer and the Oral Tradition By Geoffrey S. Kirk The Songs of Homer Cambridge University Press, was a major contribution to Homeric studies, establishing important theories about the composition, structure and transmission of the monumental poems In this volume, Geoffrey Kirk returns to Homer, but the themes are largely different He considers in particular the nature of oral and epic. of 'The Songs of Homer'-Geoffrey Stephen Kirk The Songs of Homer-Geoffrey Stephen Kirk Homer and the Apic. A Shortened Version of "The Songs of Homer"-George Eden Kirk Homer and the Epic-Geoffrey Stephen Kirk Flesh and Spirit in the Songs of Homer-Michael J. Clarke Clarke takes a new look at how life, consciousness, and death are dealt with in the poems of Homer. .

This is a shortened, rearranged version of The Songs of Homer, Professor Kirk's account of the background and development of the Homeric poems and of their quality as literature. While the essential attitudes and arguments of the earlier work have been retained, several sections have been reduced, the order has been changed and the number of. Robert Kanigel, Hearing Homer's song: the brief life and big idea of Milman Parry. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Pp. ISBN $ [Reviewer's disclosure: I was lucky enough to have known Albert Lord well in his last decade, talked with him at length about Parry and oral-traditional poetry, spent much time with him in. The Songs of Homer (Cambridge University Press, ) was a major contribution to Homeric studies, establishing important theories about the composition, structure and transmission of the monumental poems. In this volume, Geoffrey Kirk returns to Homer, but the themes are largely different. He considers in particular the nature of oral and epic poetry, and the meaning of an oral tradition.

The Songs of Homer (Cambridge University Press, ) was a major contribution to Homeric studies, establishing important theories about the composition, structure and transmission of the monumental poems. In this volume, Geoffrey Kirk returns to Homer, but the themes are largely different. Geoffrey S. Kirk. Contributor. BIOGRAPHY. Regius Professor Emeritus of Greek, University of Cambridge. Author of The Songs of Homer and others. The Songs of Homer-G. S. Kirk A vivid and comprehensive account of the Homeric poems and their quality as literature. Homer and the Epic-G. S. Kirk A shortened, rearranged version of The Songs of Homer, an account of the background and development of the Homeric poems. The Songs of Homer-Geoffrey Stephen Kirk A vivid and.