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... Homer should be ap- proached by a translator in the simplest frame of mind possible . Modern sentiment tries to make the ancient not less than the modern world its own ; but against modern sentiment in its applications to Homer the ...
... Homer should be ap- proached by a translator in the simplest frame of mind possible . Modern sentiment tries to make the ancient not less than the modern world its own ; but against modern sentiment in its applications to Homer the ...
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... Homer in the simplest possible frame of mind , free of all modern sentiment ; and the proper key - note to the Iliad is " that in our life here above ground we have , properly speaking , to enact Hell . " But in what frame of mind does ...
... Homer in the simplest possible frame of mind , free of all modern sentiment ; and the proper key - note to the Iliad is " that in our life here above ground we have , properly speaking , to enact Hell . " But in what frame of mind does ...
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... Homer , appear to me clearly to express the mood of the touchstone lines . They are the words of Apollo to Poseidon ... Homer . " Grand in style and grand in their criticism of life they may perhaps be ; but one hesitates , because the ...
... Homer , appear to me clearly to express the mood of the touchstone lines . They are the words of Apollo to Poseidon ... Homer . " Grand in style and grand in their criticism of life they may perhaps be ; but one hesitates , because the ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE Introduction | 13 |
The Pathos of Young Death | 34 |
The Manifold Sorrow of Man | 52 |
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allusiveness appear Arnold's mind Arnold's poetry Arnold's verse Arnoldean Balder beauty Celtic Ceres chapter characteristic of Arnold Chaucer context courage criticism Dante Dante's death Divine Comedy earth Empedocles entry essay expression feel felicity formal prose fortitude grace grand style grief habit Hamlet heart heaven high seriousness I. A. Richards ibid Iliad Inferno instance invictus King Henry Lacedaemon lack Laleham Letters to Clough literature live Loeb Matthew Arnold Maurice de Guérin melancholy Milton misery moral moreover need for peace never notebooks pain Paradise Lost pathetic pathos Peleus personal estimate phrases Piccarda poem poet poetic Priam quoted reader reference reflected repose reveal Rustum Satan says Arnold seems sense Shakespeare Sophocles sorrow soul spirit stanza stone Study of Poetry Temple Classics things thou thought tion touch touchstone lines touchstone mood touchstone passage touchstone verses transl Translating Homer Trilling Ugolino's utterance Virgil virtue Wisdom Zeus