Critical essays on Homer

The full range of literary traditions comes to life in the Twayne Critical Essays Series. Volume editors have carefully selected critical essays that represent the full spectrum of controversies, trends and methodologies relating to each author's work. Essays include writings from the author's native country and abroad, with interpretations from the time they were writing, through the present day.

Each volume includes:

-- An introduction providing the reader with a lucid overview of criticism from its beginnings -- illuminating controversies, evaluating approaches and sorting out the schools of thought

-- The most influential reviews and the best reprinted scholarly essays

-- A section devoted exclusively to reviews and reactions by the subject's contemporaries

-- Original essays, new translations and revisions commissioned especially for the series

-- Previously unpublished materials such as interviews, lost letters and manuscript fragments

-- A bibliography of the subject's writings and interviews

-- A name and subject index

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It is difficult to discern the basis for the selections of essays included in this collection. Some of the choices are very good and will stimulate readers; however, too many are severed from context or deal with the peripheral. The material varies widely in date, from a bit of Simone Weil to an essay written by editor Atchity and E.J.W. Barber for this volume. The content varies in type and length: poems by W.H. Auden, J. Donne, W. Stevens, C.P. Cavafy; bits by J.L. Borges and R. Bespaloff; and essays, reviews, and excerpts. The contributions differ in degrees of sobriety and/or clarity: from P. Vivante to C.H. Whitman, from J.M. Redfield to E. Voegelin. Some are instances of strained speculation based on slight data. The collection is not recommended for beginners, for they will not be able to distinguish the sound from the overly provocative or the essential from the marginal. Matriliny versus patriliny is a fascinating topic-but not for the first critical essay in the book. Collections of ancillary readings for courses on Homer in translation tend to be ephemeral; however, both John Wright's Essays on the Iliad (CH, Nov '78) and Howard Clarke's Twentieth Century Interpretations of the Odyssey (1983) are better focussed. There is a useful annotated selected bibliography, but some of the inclusions (and exclusions) are idiosyncratic.-N.A. Greenberg, Oberlin College

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