Homer-Haunted

engaging and witty […] Power is a highly sensitive and winningly inquisitive reader. He has lucidly synthesised masses of texts and has shown that we can never lay Homer’s ghost to rest. – The Spectator
engaging, at times funny, occasionally moving and always readable…as Power shows, Homer appeals to the spirit of every age… Power is an entertaining companion… Homer-Haunted shows brilliantly why Homer has lasted for 3,000 years and why The Iliad and The Odyssey will last for 3,000 years more. – The Times
absorbing… Like The Iliad and Odyssey, Homer-Haunted is a treasure chest of a book. – Literary Review
This rich embroidery of the British poetic story, from Chapman’s Homer to contemporary writers, is a wonder of imaginative scholarship. The reader feels as excited as Keats, ‘silent upon a peak of Darien’. We learn much about the British cultural tradition, but also about the immortal genius of Homer himself. Every page is an illuminating joy. – A. N. Wilson
This is such a brilliantly told story of Homer-obsessives through the ages that, by the end, you’re as hooked on Homer as they were. – Frank Skinner
It’s rich and beautiful and strange. – Rory Stewart, The Rest Is Politics
I am bowled over by this book, by its range and erudition, its enormous capacity for empathy with a stadium-full of different minds and times and individualities. It is a triumph of understanding and wit, the very best of what criticism and biography and sheer reading can do. It is also written with a deeply receptive frame of mind, constantly championing the neglected and disparaged. To read it is to be enriched. – Adam Nicolson
Full of wit, wisdom and wonder, in this beautifully illustrated book Henry Power brings Homer’s stories, their cultural impact and continuing relevance to our society, vividly to life. – Lachlan Goudie
Homer-Haunted is an endlessly generous book, written with a wonderful lightness of touch. Pope, Keats, Thom Gunn, returning World War II soldiers, Alice Oswald and many more meet in its pages through encounters with Homer that open up worlds of poetry and history as they unfold. The result is a joy for all those that love Homer, and a revelation for all those new to these glorious poems. – Daisy Hay

Henry Power is Professor of English Literature at the University of Exeter. He has been awarded a research fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust to allow him to work on this book. As well as publishing academic books, he is a regular contributor to publications such as the TLS, Evening Standard and Literary Review. He has appeared as a guest on In Our Time on BBC Radio 4. He has a significant international profile as an academic, and has held visiting posts at All Souls College, Oxford; Yale University; the Huntington Library, California, and Peking University, Beijing.

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