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	William Cowper William Cowper , 1731-1800, English poet. Physically and emotionally unfit for the professional life, he was admitted to the bar but never practiced. After a battle with insanity, Cowper retired to the country, taking refuge with the family of Mrs. Mary Unwin, whose life-long devotion to him he... Read more
	Winslow Homer Winslow Homer 1836-1910, American landscape, marine, and genre painter. Homer was born in Boston, where he later worked as a lithographer and illustrator. In 1861 he was sent to the Civil War battlefront as correspondent for Harper's Weekly, his work winning international acclaim. Many of his... Read more
	Homeric Hymns Homeric Hymns , name applied to a body of 34 hexameter poems falsely attributed to Homer by the ancients. Composed probably between 800 and 300 BC, they are complimentary verses addressed to the various gods, such as Aphrodite, Apollo, Demeter, and Hermes. Although sometimes of great beauty, they... Read more
	Hephaestus Hephaestus , in Greek religion and mythology, Olympian god. According to Homer he was the son of Hera and Zeus, but Hesiod states that he was conceived and borne by Hera alone. Originally an Asian fire god, in Greece he became the divine smith and god of craftsmen. He was worshiped primarily in... Read more
	Penelope Penelope , in Greek mythology, wife of Odysseus and the mother of Telemachus. In Homer's Odyssey she is pictured as a chaste and faithful wife. When Odysseus was away, she was surrounded by suitors who tried to persuade her that he would never return. She agreed to choose another husband when she... Read more
	Homer Homer principal figure of ancient Greek literature; the first European poet. Works, Life, and Legends Two epic poems are attributed to Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey. They are composed in a literary type of Greek, Ionic in basis with Aeolic admixtures. Ranked among the great works of Western... Read more
	Charles Homer Haskins Charles Homer Haskins American historian Charles Homer Haskins (1870-1937) was a leading authority on Norman culture and an important academic administrator. Charles Homer Haskins was born in Meadville, Pa., on Dec. 21, 1870. He learned Latin at the age of 5 and Greek a little later and... Read more
	simile simile [Lat.,=likeness], in rhetoric, a figure of speech in which an object is explicitly compared to another object. Robert Burns's poem "A Red Red Rose" contains two straightforward similes: My love is like a red, red rose That's newly sprung in June: My love is like the melody That's... Read more
	Henry Louis Aaron Hank Aaron (Henry Louis Aaron), 1934-, U.S. baseball player, b. Mobile, Ala. A durable outfielder noted for his powerful wrists, Aaron was among the first blacks to play a full career in the major leagues (1954-76). In 1974 "Hammerin' Hank" broke Babe Ruth 's legendary lifetime mark of 714... Read more
	Robert Henri Robert Henri , 1865-1929, American painter and teacher, b. Cincinnati as Robert Henry Cozad. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In 1888 he went to Paris, where he worked at Julian's and the Beaux-Arts until, dissatisfied with the schools, he set up his own studio. In 1891 he... Read more