Table of Contents

Introduction: making Homer new; Part I. High Modernism and Homer: 1. 'To have gathered from the air a live tradition': Pound, Homer, modernism; 2. 'The reading of Homer was transformed into a fabulous event': Mandelstam's modernist Odyssey; 3. 'Damn Homer, Ulysses, Bloom, and all the rest': 'Cyclops', disorder, and Joyce's monster audiences; Part II. Late Modernism and Homer: 4. 'ACTUALITY gets in front of Olympus': Pound's late visions and revisions of Homer; 5. 'What song is left to sing? All song is sung': H. D., Homer, modernism; Conclusion; Appendix: Russian text of Mandelstam's poems.

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A comparative study exploring the particular importance of Homer in the emergence, development, and promotion of modernist writing.

About the Author

Leah Culligan Flack in an Assistant Professor of English at Marquette University, Wisconsin.