Elements of Unity in the Homeric Poems (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Elements of Unity in the Homeric Poems The reader who is more impressed with the sense of unity than of diversity in the composition of the Iliad, suffers a peculiar difficulty in debate with an opponent. It is not precisely that he is liable to the reproach of being a "poet" instead of a "professor," with consequent derogation from his standing as a judge in poetic matters; or a mere conservative unready for new truth: every student of Homer living has begun his study long since the Lay theory was familiar, insomuch that a reviewer lately appointed the centennial of Wolf´s publication, 1895, as the date after which no writer of credit would contend for the unity; no unreasonable prognostic, if the other theory be essentially reasonable. The difficulty is rather, that certain conditions of the question throw such a reader´s ideas and expressions into forms which by a sort of optical illusion seem to resemble those of contempt. What could be more repugnant to the proper feeling of one true scholar discussing with another? Yet the unpleasant result is often quite apparent. The grounds of the illusion seem to be of this kind: Contempt is the attitude of a mind which feels its position to be larger, broader, higher, as regarding one that appears to be smaller, narrower, lower. The contemplation of a great object as a whole, with connection of parts in the form of unity, naturally fills the mind with impressions as of something ampler and more elevated than contemplation of the parts in fraction, without such unity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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