This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...up and beautified, the expression too long drawn out; there is nothing in the original about 'cuts the heart in twain'. But if some of Homer's noble simplicity disappears and is replaced by conscious art, yet the result has a beauty of its own. We feel that we are reading poetry. Enough has perhaps now been said about ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...up and beautified, the expression too long drawn out; there is nothing in the original about 'cuts the heart in twain'. But if some of Homer's noble simplicity disappears and is replaced by conscious art, yet the result has a beauty of its own. We feel that we are reading poetry. Enough has perhaps now been said about this side of the matter, but it will not have been said in vain if readers feel that poetic quality must count for much in estimating the worth of any translation, aud that in all the above quotations something of this quality appears, though under different forms--that each in its own way thrills us as great poetry alone can do, as mere accomplished versifying usually fails to do. Much of Arnold's lectures is taken up with protests against the use of ridiculous or too uncommon words, and here we can heartily agree with him. It may conceivably be permissible when a horse's name is 'Xanthos' to English it as 'Chestnut', but it can never be right to call another 'Spry-foot' merely on grounds of etymology. Anything so grotesque as this is out of keeping. Newman tries to make out that the language of Homer was as archaic to an Athenian of the days of Pericles as preChaucerian English is to us. Even if this were so, it affords no reason why we should put ourselves into a corresponding position. But surely it is not true. To an educated Athenian of the time named, Homer was archaic yet familiar, just as the Authorised Version of the Bible is to us. When we read in this latter that a certain woman 'all to brake his scull' with a stone, we may need a glossary, but the unfamiliar word is not at all grotesque. The Athenian had been brought up with Homer as part of his daily food; even phrases naturally unfamiliar would become familiar by frequent repeti...
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