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...reading that must be done in English A before next Tuesday is from the works of Alexander Pope. The following are the extracts: Essay on Criticism; Canto II, of The Rape of the Lock; Book I. of the Essay on Man. Book I. of the Iliad...
That the influence of Homer upon Greek thought and life was marked is in one respect the cause of his influence upon our literature. For the Iliad and the Odyssey were learned by every Greek school boy; every child was taught his first lines of the Iliad, just as at present he is taught his A. B, C. For the Greeks saw how beautifully every phrase of life was pictured in Homer from whom as Ovid says, "As from a spring perennial the lips of bards are moistened and refreshed," and knew that their children could not become great...
...edition of Seymour's "Homer's Iliad, Books...
...edition of Seymour's "Homer's Iliad, Books...
...Atlantic Monthly for October contains an article on "The closing Scenes of the Iliad" by Mr. William C. Lawton...