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Blackwell, Thomas

AN ENQUIRY INTO THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF HOMER (1736) Very Good with no dust jacket

Georg Olms Hildesheim, 1976

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Year of publication
1976
ISBN
3487060027
Author
Blackwell, Thomas
Publishers
Georg Olms Hildesheim
Keyword
Arts & Literature Biographies & Memoirs Criticism & Theory, History & Criticism Homer Classical Greek & Roman Homeric Epic
Cover description
Very Good with no dust jacket
Binding description
Hardcover ISBN 3487060027

Description

Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. ; Reprint of the 2nd edition; Anglistica & Americana; 1735. Blackwell, a Scottish classical scholar, first published this work anonymously. The work was intended to explain the causes of the superiority of Homer to all the poets who preceded or followed him. It shows considerable research, and contains many curious and interesting details, but its want of method made Bentley say that, when he had gone through half of it, he had forgotten the beginning, and, when he had finished the reading of it, he had forgotten the whole.