Milton and Homer: "Written to Aftertimes"

Published in 2012 | 220 pages | cloth | ISBN: 978-0-8207-0447-0 Note: This book is currently out of print, however a reprint may be possible for faculty/class adoptions, subject to minimum quantities. Please contact our print and fulfillment partner XanEdu Custom Publishing for more information: (800) 218-5971 ext. 8000. Book Reviews: “Gregory Machacek’s Milton and Homer possesses considerable virtues . . . provid[ing] helpful readings of passages in Milton that have previously received so much critical scrutiny that one would hardly think fresh interpretation possible. Quite helpful both as a general discussion of Milton’s debt to Homer and of what a writer does when (s)he consciously alludes to another’s books.” — Sixteenth Century Journal  Book Information: This is the first full-length study of the relation between Milton and Homer, arguably Milton's most important precursor. It is also the first study of a major interpoetic relationship that is responsive to the historicist critic