On the Study of Celtic Literature; And On Translating Homer;
The book On the Study of Celtic Literature; And On Translating Homer; was written by author Arnold, Matthew, 1822-1888 Here you can read free online of On the Study of Celtic Literature; And On Translating Homer; book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is On the Study of Celtic Literature; And On Translating Homer; a good or bad book?
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The manuscripts were bought by Lord Ashburnham, who keeps them shut up, and will let no one consult them (at least up to the date when O'Curry published his Lectures he did so) "for fear an actual acquaintance with their contents should decrease their value as matter of curiosity at some future transfer or sale." Who knows'! Perhaps an Oxford professor of Celtic might have touched the flinty heart of Lord Ashburnham. At this moment, when the narrow Philistinism, which has long had things its ow...n way in England, is showing its natural fruits, and we are beginning to feel ashamed, and uneasy, and alarmed at it ; now, when we are becoming aware that we have sacrificed CELTIC LITEEATUEE. 137 to Philistinism culture, and insight, and dignity, and acceptance, and weight among the nations, and hold on events that deeply concern us, and control of the future, and yet that it cannot even give us the fool's paradise it promised us, but is apt to break down, and to leave us with Mr. Roebuck's and Mr.
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