The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western LiteratureOxford University Press, 1949 - 763 Seiten |
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... Homer on a level with Dante and Milton , by discussing their grandeurs as being unlike but comparable , by defining the difference between Shakespeare's rapid power and the serenity of Homer , by intro- ducing illuminating comparisons ...
... Homer on a level with Dante and Milton , by discussing their grandeurs as being unlike but comparable , by defining the difference between Shakespeare's rapid power and the serenity of Homer , by intro- ducing illuminating comparisons ...
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... Homer's language , which makes it quite impossible for us to call it ' eminently plain and direct ' . But he omitted one essential fact - apparently because he was incapable of seeing it . That was the fact which Arnold saw ; and Arnold ...
... Homer's language , which makes it quite impossible for us to call it ' eminently plain and direct ' . But he omitted one essential fact - apparently because he was incapable of seeing it . That was the fact which Arnold saw ; and Arnold ...
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... Homer twice removed . The style is eminently plain and direct , much more so than Homer's . Some- times verse after verse , clause after clause , begins with And : which is a biblical rather than a Homeric habit . The syntax is straight ...
... Homer twice removed . The style is eminently plain and direct , much more so than Homer's . Some- times verse after verse , clause after clause , begins with And : which is a biblical rather than a Homeric habit . The syntax is straight ...
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