Quotes from On Translating Homer — Matthew Arnold
1822–1888 England
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The grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
On Translating Homer (1861)
On the mind of an adversary one never makes the faintest impression.
On Translating Homer (1861)
Of these two literatures, as of the intellect of Europe in general, the main effort, for now many years, has been a critical effort; the endeavour, in all branches of knowledge — theology, philosophy, history, art, science — to see the object as in itself it really is.
On Translating Homer (1861)