The Poetry of Homer ― Edited With an Introduction by Bruce Heiden

Bassett (U. of Vermont) died only days before he was scheduled to deliver the 1937 Sather Classical Lecture at the University of California, Berkeley. The book is based on the completed manuscript he left behind. It was first published as volume 15 of the Sather Classical Lectures by the University of California Press in 1938. Heiden (Greek and Latin, Ohio State U.) provides a new introduction. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Samuel Bassett was professor at the University of Vermont from 1905 to his death in 1936. Although he wrote extensively on Homer, The Poetry of Homer was his only book. Bruce Heiden, Associate Professor of Greek and Latin at Ohio State University, is the author of Tragic Rhetoric: An Interpretation of Sophocles' Trachiniae, as well as many articles on Homeric poetry.