Elements of Unity in the Homeric Poems (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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The phase of the total Iliad as it draws toward its closing acts is notable. A change comes over it something like that in the later plays of Shakespeare as compared with the earlier. The rhythm seems insensibly modified, not strik ingly as in the other case; there is less tune. Deeper harmony; mo-re abruptness; nearer sense of the subject, enlargement of its features, as if words could not quite cover it, and re tirement of the broader groupings; the various classifications of cities, sections and allies, so familiar in the earlier books, give place by degrees to mere Greek and Trojans, then to the leading personages alone, as in'the conduct of a broad laid novel.

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