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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 20:02:54 -0500
From: David Meadows <dmeadows@idirect.com>
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Salve,

On Thursday, January 31, 2002, 6:01:23 PM,James M. Pfundstein scripsit:
>>*OTH* was first published in 1861, and originated in lectures given by
>>Arnold in 1860 as professor of poetry at Oxford.

> It might almost have been better titled "On NOT Translating Homer" 
> (cf. Woolf "On Not Reading Greek")-- there are some beautifully snide 
> passages in it, at the expense of some of the Victorian translators 
> of Homer (especially Newman). One can see how Housman would have 
> liked it. It's pretty unsatisfying at times, though-- often mere 
> unqualified Homerolatry, as when Arnold claims Homer is "always 
> noble," even in the Thersites passage (_Iliad_ 2.211ff). To mock ugly 
> little balding men might have seemed like the height of nobility to 
> Arnold but I (for reasons of my own) am inclined to disagree.

> JM("Mounos ametroepe:s ekolo:a")P

If you've never read OTH (the essay), here's the monster url:

http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/pageviewer?frames=1&coll=moa&view=50&root=%2Fmoa%2Fnora%2Fnora0094%2F&tif=00114.TIF&cite=http%3A%2F%2Fcdl.library.cornell.edu%2Fcgi-bin%2Fmoa%2Fmoa-cgi%3Fnotisid%3DABQ7578-0094-6

If that doesn't make it through, try:

http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/sgml/moa-idx?notisid=ABQ7578-0094-6



dm

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