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