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"Alexander Pope was the last of Homer's commentators to make full use of the allegorical tradition. He was plainly uncomfortable, tolerating and even endorsing allegorism when it seemed to work within the poems to broaden and deepen their significance, but impatient with its fine-spun to interpretations, once calling them "whimsies" that "I leave just as I found'em, to the Reader's Judgment or Mercy. "
— Mar 05, 2016 06:54PM
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"But it remains a beguiling fact that the Iliad's readers generally remember Homer's horses less for their military uses than because they can also speak, weep, and drink wine. "
— Mar 11, 2016 03:59PM
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Longinus: "The whole Iliad, written at the height of the poet's inspiration, is full of dramatic action, while the Odyssey is mostly narrative, which is characteristic of old age. One might compare the Homer of the Odyssey to the setting sun: the grandeur remains but not the intensity. The tension is not so great as in those famous lays of the Iliad, the great passages are not sustained without weakening...
— Mar 11, 2016 05:36AM
Daniel Chaikin
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(Neoclassical humor)
Sarrasin:
Nine Years, Achilles, fair as Day,
And valiant as his Sword in Battle,
Cry'd for his Mistress, ta'en away,
Like Little Master for his Rattle
(1774)
— Mar 08, 2016 05:02AM
Sarrasin:
Nine Years, Achilles, fair as Day,
And valiant as his Sword in Battle,
Cry'd for his Mistress, ta'en away,
Like Little Master for his Rattle
(1774)
Daniel Chaikin
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René Rapin on book 23 of the Iliad (1664): "Would someone on a two-year voyage from the Indies to Paris spend a month in Dieppe playing backgammon?"
— Mar 07, 2016 05:50AM
