‘When it was a matter of wonder’, Landor wrote, ‘how Keats, who was ignorant of Greek, could have written his ‘Hyperion’, Shelley, whom envy never touched, gave as a reason – “because he was a Greek”.’ This dictum raises a question about the poetry discussed in this book: how, given the fact that modern Greece has acquired Homer from the West, is the modern Greek poet to Helleniʐe the relationship between Homer and himself? Archaism and kleftism were inadequate answers; the local patriotism of Visionary offered the possibility of a new role for Homer; but there was room for a more literary mode of allusion. A particularly self-conscious possibility was to acknowledge the Western contribution to modern Hellenism, as Sikelianos so generously does in ‘Yánnis Keats’ (1915):