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Their attraction at the present day, and their living, poetic power.' 8. Homer the most important poetical monument in existence [Matthew Arnold's "Translators of Homer"]. 9. This poetry a naive and picturesque representation [Lord Derby's Speech in 1865, quoted in Blackie's "Homer," Vol. I, p. 143]- 10. In it every object was alive, and by imaginative EPIC POETRY. 17 sympathy the poet enters into scenes and events. Spears, waves, mountains, horses have personality ["Iliad," XXIII, 216; I, 482;... IV, 424; XIII, 29; XIV, 392]. 11. The meeting of the different Hellenic tribes in Asia Minor gave the necessary conditions for the birth of such poems [K. O. Miiller's "Literature of Ancient Greece," Vol. I, Book I, ch. iv]. 12. The interest centres about one man and not any event or series of events. The central nucleus of the Iliad an Achilleis [De Quincey's "Homer and the Ho- meridse," "The Greek Poets," by J. A. Symonds, p. 43, 2d series]. 13. The internal unity of the poem. The Xth Book an essential part, notwithstanding the apparent want of direct connection with the narrated story.
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