Word: homer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...great acts and underlying principles of daily life. Whitman, says Burroughs, is superior to Emerson, in that the latter's intellect starves out his sympathies and emotions. Again, Whitman rises above the sphere of literary culture and conventional form which confines Tennyson and Browning. He belongs rather with Homer, Job, and Isaiah, for his poetry is more than literature; it is humanity itself...
...Collar's talk this afternoon on the teaching of Homer should command wide interest. It is not often that we have an opportunity of hearing one who has had such a long and fruitful experience in the instruction of the classics...
...William C. Collar, head master of the Roxbury Latin School, will give a talk on teaching Homer, in Sever 8, on Thursday, Dec. 3, at 4.30 p. m. All persons interested in the subject are invited to be present...
...translation into Greek from Homer's Essay on Eloquence, from the words "Of all the polite and learned nations" through the words "such disputes are very frequent in this nation...
...closing, Professor Dorpfeld called attention to the remarkable correspondence between what we know Tiryns and Mycenae to have been and Homer's description of the palaces of heroic times, and confirmed the truth of the comparison by certain conspicuous and convincing examples. This fact is of importance in determining the date of the Homeric poems. They belong to the same age with Tiryns and Mycenae, and are not the creation of a poet's fancy, but trustworthy descriptions of the life and art of the Heroic...