Homer's Original Genius : Eighteenth-century Notions of the Early Greek Epic (1688-1798) (Paperback)

List of plates; List of abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; Part I. Ancients and Moderns: 1. Ancients and moderns: the problem of cultural progress; 2. Opposition to antiquity: Charles Perrault; 3. The interpretation of early Greek epic: Mme Dacier and the Homeric war; 4. Pope's view of Homer: 'fire' and invention; 5. Voltaire and the poetry of the primitive age; Part II. Primitivism and Realism: 6. Epic genius: the departure from the neoclassical model; 7. Vico's discovery of the true Homer; 8. Thomas Blackwell: the problem of Homer's genius; 9. Notions of poetry and society in the controversy about Ossian; 10. The primitivists and the primitive bard; 11. Poetry is 'original imitation': Robert Wood's theory of the Homeric epic; 12. The originality of Homer: some conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index.