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John Tresidder Sheppard

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Description:Excerpt from The Pattern of the IliadThe Homeric Question wanes and waxes. Homer's poetry remains. If the coming generation is to have its chance of realizing how delightful an inheritance the ancient world has left us, it must be nourished not on controversy about Homer, but on Homer. Shake speare himself was made a stranger, and an unpleasing stranger, to the present writer's schoolboy generation by the conscientious effort of the teachers to divert attention from the plays as plays, and to concentrate it on the derivation of such words as wassail and welkin. A learned scholar of the University of Cambridge has been heard to say that at school he was not taught to read the Iliad and Odyssey as poems, but only as material for the solution of a tire some Homeric problem. As if the problem mattered except to lovers of the poet's work. As if it could be solved by persons who have never thought about the poem as a poem.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Pattern of the Iliad (Methuen library reprints). To get started finding Pattern of the Iliad (Methuen library reprints), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Excerpt from The Pattern of the IliadThe Homeric Question wanes and waxes. Homer's poetry remains. If the coming generation is to have its chance of realizing how delightful an inheritance the ancient world has left us, it must be nourished not on controversy about Homer, but on Homer. Shake speare himself was made a stranger, and an unpleasing stranger, to the present writer's schoolboy generation by the conscientious effort of the teachers to divert attention from the plays as plays, and to concentrate it on the derivation of such words as wassail and welkin. A learned scholar of the University of Cambridge has been heard to say that at school he was not taught to read the Iliad and Odyssey as poems, but only as material for the solution of a tire some Homeric problem. As if the problem mattered except to lovers of the poet's work. As if it could be solved by persons who have never thought about the poem as a poem.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Pattern of the Iliad (Methuen library reprints). To get started finding Pattern of the Iliad (Methuen library reprints), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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