The Iliad
The Iliad

The Iliad

The Iliad Homer is universally allowed to have had the greatest invention of any writer whatever. The...
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Author: Buckley, Theodore Alois,1825-1856 [Annotator]
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The Iliad

The Iliad

$103.25 $51.60
The Iliad

The Iliad

$103.25 $51.60
Author: Buckley, Theodore Alois,1825-1856 [Annotator]
Format: eBook
Language: English
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The Iliad

Homer is universally allowed to have had the greatest invention of any writer whatever. The praise of judgment Virgil has justly contested with him, and others may have their pretensions as to particular excellences; but his invention remains yet unrivalled. Nor is it a wonder if he has ever been acknowledged the greatest of poets, who most excelled in that which is the very foundation of poetry. It is the invention that, in different degrees, distinguishes all great geniuses: the utmost stretch of human study, learning, and industry, which masters everything besides, can never attain to this. It furnishes art with all her materials, and without it judgment itself can at best but steal wisely: for art is only like a prudent steward that lives on managing the riches of nature. Whatever praises may be given to works of judgment, there is not even a single beauty in them to which the invention must not contribute: as in the most regular gardens, art can only reduce beauties of nature to more regularity, and such a figure, which the common eye may better take in, and is, therefore, more entertained with. And, perhaps, the reason why common critics are inclined to prefer a judicious and methodical genius to a great and fruitful one, is, because they find it easier for themselves to pursue their observations through a uniform and bounded walk of art, than to comprehend the vast and various extent of nature. Our authors work is a wild paradise, where, if we cannot see all the beauties so distinctly as in an ordered garden, it is only because the number of them is infinitely greater. It is like a copious nursery, which contains the seeds and first productions of every kind, out of which those who followed him have but selected some particular plants, each according to his fancy, to cultivate and beautify. If some things are too luxuriant it is owing to the richness of the soil; and if others are not arrived to perfection or maturity, it is only because they are overrun and oppressed by those of a stronger nature. It is to the strength of this amazing invention we are to attribute that unequalled fire and rapture which is so forcible in Homer, that no man of a true poetical spirit is master of himself while he reads him. What he writes is of the most animated nature imaginable; every thing moves, every thing lives, and is put in action. If a council be called, or a battle fought, you are not coldly informed of what was said or done as from a third person; the reader is hurried out of himself by the force of the poets imagination, and turns in one place to a hearer, in another to a spectator. The course of his verses resembles that of the army he describes, ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 6130
Author: Buckley, Theodore Alois
Release Date: Jul 1, 2004
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Contributor (Author): Homer, 750? BCE-650? BCE


Translator: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744

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