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The elections, 1789-1992

The elections, 1789-1992

James T. Havel

... (WI) Homer Stille Cummings Josephus Daniels (NC) John William Davis (WV) Jonathan McMillan Davis (KS) William Emmett Dever (IL) Edward Laurence Doheny (CA) Edward Irving Edwards (NJ) Woodbridge Nathan Ferris (MI) Henry Ford ...
Chapman's Homer: The Odyssey

Chapman's Homer: The Odyssey

Homer

George Chapman's translations of Homer are among the most famous in the English language. Keats immortalized the work of the Renaissance dramatist and poet in the sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer.
The Journey Back

The Journey Back

Priscilla Cummings

OTHER BOOKS YOU MAY ENJOY Al Capone DoesMyShirts GenniferCholdenko Blindsided Priscilla Cummings Buddy M. H. Herlong The Call of the Wild Jack London A Face First Priscilla Cummings The Great Wide Sea M. H. Herlong One  ...
The Cambridge companion to Homer

The Cambridge companion to Homer

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Chapters on Homer in English translation and Homer in the history of ideas round out the collection.
Spaces, Worlds, and Grammar

Spaces, Worlds, and Grammar

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'"Iliad-no sakusha-da, Homer-ga. Iliad-GEN author-cop Homer-NOM '[It] is the author of the Iliad, Homer.' 0 a. *Iliad-wa, sakusha-da, Homer-ga. Iliad-TOP author-cop Homer-NOM 'As for the Iliad, [it] is the author, Homer.' b. Homer-ga ...
Homer: Everyman's Poetry

Homer: Everyman's Poetry

Author Homer

Little is known about the poet Homer but he is thought to have composed the Iliad in the second half of the eight century BC and according to tradition lived on the island of Chios in the east Aegean.
COLLOQUIUM RAURICUM 2:

COLLOQUIUM RAURICUM 2:

Joachim Latacz

Inhaltsverzeichnis Homer und die archäologische Forschung Homer und die althistorische Forschung Homer und die Sprachwissenschaft Mythenforschung und Religionswissenschaft im Zusammenhang mit Homer Biographische Forschung zu Homer Die ...
Homer: The Resonance of Epic

Homer: The Resonance of Epic

Barbara Graziosi

The Resonance of Epic Barbara Graziosi, Johannes Haubold. the name 'Homer' spoke of beautiful poetry, and that the Iliad and the Odyssey were eventually singled out as the best poems. The rules which dictated that 'Homer and Homer ...
Homer's Text and Language

Homer's Text and Language

Gregory Nagy

In Homeric studies, an ongoing debate centers on different ways to establish the texts of Homer and the different ways to appreciate the poetry created in the language of Homer.
EIMI: A Journey Through Soviet Russia

EIMI: A Journey Through Soviet Russia

E. E. Cummings

This is Cummings's invigorating and unique voice at its finest, and EIMI is without question one of his most substantial accomplishments.
E.E. Cummings

E.E. Cummings

Catherine Reef

"A look into the life and poetry of E.E. Cummings."--From source other than the Library of Congress
The Supreme Court Reborn: The Constitutional Revolution in ...

The Supreme Court Reborn: The Constitutional Revolution in ...

William E. Leuchtenburg

648E (A5352/542/45). 93. Hiram Johnson to John Francis Neylan, May 4, 1937, Johnson MSS; Burton K. Wheeler to Robert E. Jakoubek, March 27, 1972 ( courtesy of Mr. Jakoubek). 94. Homer S. Cummings MS. Diary, August 1, 1937. 95.
Ulysses Homer; Or, A Discovery of the True Author of the ...

Ulysses Homer; Or, A Discovery of the True Author of the ...

Jean-Baptiste Lechevalier

Those on the contrary who have maintained that Homer did not exist till many ages after the taking of Troy, being ... are necessarily obliged to suppose that the author of the Iliad, whosoever he may have been, Homer, Ulysses, or any one else, ...
The Mathematical Magpie: Being More Stories, Mainly ...

The Mathematical Magpie: Being More Stories, Mainly ...

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Needed: Feminine Math PARKE CUMMINGS Between them, Mr. Cummings and The New Yorker provide further useful kidding of the bring-it-home-to-the-child's- own-ex- perience classroom instruction. A recent question asked of our Patsy, ...
The Rotarian

The Rotarian

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—JOHN FRIER, Rotarian Shoelace Manufacturer University City, Missouri Cummings Should Do Chores The article If Women Would Only Think, by Parke Cummings [THE Ro~ TARIAN for January], was very amusing yet irritating. Especially ...
Homer Travestie: being a new translation of the four first ...

Homer Travestie: being a new translation of the four first ...

Homer

Homer, Thomas Bridges, COTTON (Junior, pseud. [i.e. Thomas Bridges.]) ... that material article, we. an author to stand to his Word in any thing in money matters - , I know it isbetter never 6 THE AUTHOR'S must understand, is a new one of 'my .. .
Inventing Homer: The Early Reception of Epic

Inventing Homer: The Early Reception of Epic

Barbara Graziosi

closeness to the gods and his poverty, and yet modern scholars seem to take Homer's closeness to the gods for granted ... Latacz is one of the tew scholars who states these assumptions explicitly, In his entry on Homer for Der Neue Paid. y he ...
De kracht van stille mensen: introvert zijn in een drukke wereld

De kracht van stille mensen: introvert zijn in een drukke wereld

Sophia Dembling

Het is tijd voor een stille revolutie. Sophia Dembling, zelf introvert én gelukkig, laat zien dat introvert zijn niet ‘fout’ is of dat er iets mist, zoals de maatschappij of extraverte mensen ons soms doen geloven.
The Mourner's Song: War and Remembrance from the Iliad to ...

The Mourner's Song: War and Remembrance from the Iliad to ...

James Tatum

Homer's poetry would give women much insight into the roles they could play for men, which, as Helen shows, were not always the roles that men thought they should play. 6. Latacz, Homer, 15–22 (“The New Relevance of Homer”). Latacz ...
The Odyssey of Homer: A New Verse Translation

The Odyssey of Homer: A New Verse Translation

Homer

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Homer

Homer

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Provides insight into two of Homer's epic poems along with a short history of the man and his life.
Red Kayak

Red Kayak

Priscilla Cummings

Soon, Brady discovers the terrible truth behind the kayak’s sinking, and it will change the lives of those he loves forever. Priscilla Cummings deftly weaves a suspenseful tale of three teenagers caught in a wicked web of deception.
Staging Modern American Life: Popular Culture in the ...

Staging Modern American Life: Popular Culture in the ...

T. Fahy

When discussing this work, MiltonA. Cohen arguesthat Cummings “was searching for a new way of reconciling abstraction and representation” (55–56). Like the protagonist of Himwhotries to integrate highartwith popular culture, Cummings ...
Homer

Homer

R. B. Rutherford

A concise yet detailed account of the state of criticism of the two great epics ascribed to Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Homer

Homer

Barry B. Powell

This concise book is a complete and contemporary introduction to Homer and his two master-works, the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Homer in English

Homer in English

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This text is one of the volumes in the New Poets in Translation series. It focuses on the epic poems of Homer, one of the most translated authors in literature.
Homer: Iliad

Homer: Iliad

Homer

At the same time it adumbrates Achilles' own death and the fall of Troy. This edition will help students and scholars better appreciate this key part of the epic poem.
Essay on the Life and Poetry of Homer

Essay on the Life and Poetry of Homer

Plutarch

This bilingual edition, with introduction and brief commentary, makes accessible for the first time in English a text of great importance for the history and interpretation of Homer.
Bangkok: City of Angels: City of Angels

Bangkok: City of Angels: City of Angels

Joe Cummings

In over 140 stunning color photographs, backed by the lucid and insightful writing of Joe Cummings, Bill Wassman brings us exquisite portraits and views of Bangkok's people, places, and a host of other delights.

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