"Within Homeric studies specifically, Lord's "The Singer of Tales", which focused on problems and questions that arise in conjunction with applying oral-formulaic theory to problematic texts such as the "Iliad", "Odyssey", and even "Beowulf", influenced nearly all of the articles written on Homer and oral-formulaic composition thereafter.However, in response to Lord, Geoffrey Kirk published "The Songs of Homer", questioning Lord's extension of the oral-formulaic nature of Serbian and Croatian literature (the area from which the theory was first developed) to Homeric epic.