Translations of Homer: The OdysseyMethuen, 1967 - Epic poetry, Greek |
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... Epic Poem , gives us a just Idea of it , and we may define it thus : " The Epic Poem is a discourse invented by art , to form the * Res gestæ regumque ducumque . Hor . Art . Poet . ( 73 ) . † Cui mens divinior atque os magna sonaturum ...
... Epic Poem , gives us a just Idea of it , and we may define it thus : " The Epic Poem is a discourse invented by art , to form the * Res gestæ regumque ducumque . Hor . Art . Poet . ( 73 ) . † Cui mens divinior atque os magna sonaturum ...
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... Epic Poem . SECT . V. THE Action of a Poem is the Subject which the Poet undertakes , proposes , and builds upon . So that the Moral and the Instructions which are the End of the Epic Poem are not the Matter of it . Those the Poets ...
... Epic Poem . SECT . V. THE Action of a Poem is the Subject which the Poet undertakes , proposes , and builds upon . So that the Moral and the Instructions which are the End of the Epic Poem are not the Matter of it . Those the Poets ...
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... Epic Poem . In the former , Terror and Pity have the chief place ; the Passion that seems most peculiar to Epic Poetry , is Admiration . Besides this Admiration , which in general distinguishes the Epic Poem from the Dramatic ; each Epic ...
... Epic Poem . In the former , Terror and Pity have the chief place ; the Passion that seems most peculiar to Epic Poetry , is Admiration . Besides this Admiration , which in general distinguishes the Epic Poem from the Dramatic ; each Epic ...
Contents
Telemachus and Penelope Ulysses among | 36 |
Juno deceives Jupiter by the Girdle of Venus | 156 |
The Fight of Ulysses and Irus | 166 |
Copyright | |
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Achilles Action Alcinous Ancients appears arms attend bear beauty beginning calls Calypso cause character chief consequently Dacier death deep descends divine Eustathius expression eyes Fable fate father feast gives Goddess Gods Greeks ground hand happy heav'n Heroe Homer honour Iliad Island Ithaca Jove kind King land manner mean Menelaus mind Minerva nature necessary Nestor never night o'er objection observes Odyssey opinion passage Penelope person Poem Poet Poetry pow'r Prince probable Queen race Reader reason relation remarkable rest rise royal says shade shews shore soul speaks story sufferings Suitors tears Telemachus tells thee thing thou thought thro train Troy true truth Ulysses verse vessel Virgil voyage whole winds wine wisdom wise woes youth