A Biographic Outline of Homer As He Reveals Himself in His Works
A Biographic Outline of Homer As He Reveals Himself in His Works
Snider Denton Jaques
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In such fashion the poet mythologizes the many- minded Ulysses in his intense and protracted strug- gle with the various hostile agencies seeking to enthrall his soul, and thus to enslave his free per- sonality. From the outer doom of Smyrna in the East to his inner bondage of passion in the West clxxxviii HOMER'S LIFE-LINES he has kept up one continued fight with his eveiv menacing Fate. But he surmounts all his barriers within and without, so that he may well be hailed the Homeric Fate-compel...ler. But this is only one of the life-lines of the grand Ulyssean experience. There are other important ones, which must be recounted if we would con- ceive and make our own the whole man either as hero or as poet. IV. Homer's Life of Ulysses. Evidently in order to win the full bearing and significance of the Ulyssean Homer, which is our theme, we should take an all-rounded survey of the Homeric Ulysses. For into the personal evolution of this hero of his mind, the poet without doubt pours more of his own psychical self than into any other outstanding figure of his two books.
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