Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Pattern of the Iliad
The Homeric Question wanes and waxes. Homer's poetry remains. If the coming generation is to have its chance of realizing how delightful an inheritance the ancient world has left us, it must be nourished not on controversy about Homer, but on Homer. Shake speare himself was made a stranger, and an unpleasing stranger, to the present writer's schoolboy generation by the conscientious effort of the teachers to divert attention from the plays as plays, and to concentrate it on the derivation of such words as wassail and welkin. A learned scholar of the University of Cambridge has been heard to say that at school he was not taught to read the Iliad and Odyssey as poems, but only as material for the solution of a tire some Homeric problem. As if the problem mattered except to lovers of the poet's work. As if it could be solved by persons who have never thought about the poem as a poem.
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