DISCUSSION: See lines 1-6. There’s been a recent increase in scholarly work on Homer’s poems. Before 1970, only non-academics studied Homer’s poems as poems.
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- CORRECT. Before 1970, scholars studied side issues (lines 11-15). Now they are again studying the poems as poems.
- We’re never told if recent scholarly work is good. We only know they’ve started studying the poems again.
- This goes too far. The scholars might draw on some of that scholarship to illustrate some aspects of the poems.
- Who knows? Simone Weil and Erich Auerbach might have done such good work that scholars cite them, even though they weren’t academics.
- Authorship is a non-poetic part of the poems. Scholars are now focussing on the literary aspects of the poems themselves.
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