Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WOLF AND THE CASKET; OR THE UNITY OF THE ILIAD, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poet's Biography First Line: Though wolf, in hypercritic zeal, insists Last Line: The war from fight to fight, from book to book. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Wolf, Friedrich August (1795-1824); Iliad; Odyssey | ||||||||
Though Wolf, in hypercritic zeal, insists On breaking up that old Ionian harp, And parcels out to many melodists The Chian's lonely fame, - he cannot warp Our common sense, pervert our natural taste; Great Aristotle, and that warrior-youth Of old, held simpler views of Epic truth; Master and pupil felt his unity; And, when the monarch in his casket placed The roll, the verdict of a world he took: In truth, a plural Homer cannot be! One Muse maintains the quarrels and the loves, One ardent voice, like Heaven-sent Ossa, moves The war from fight to fight, from book to book. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE EPIC STARS by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE CHILDHOOD OF HOMER by MARY KINZIE HOMER'S SEEING-EYE DOG by WILLIAM MATTHEWS THE RETURN OF THE GREEKS by EDWIN MUIR HOMER IN BASIC by KENNETH REXROTH THE HOMERIC HEXAMETER [DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED] by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER by JOHN KEATS HER FIRST-BORN by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER |
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