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“We need only to think of Homer, Dante, and Milton to be convinced that in every great epic of world literature it is something quite different that faces us. Here we are not confronted with a mere report of something past; instead, we are translated by the threads the epic tale into a world-perspective in which we are now able to see the totality of events and the entire world of man in a new light”