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Both poems are marvels of poetic genius. In graphic descriptions, simplicity of style, and felicitous phrase, they are imsurpassed. Their characters are drawn by a master hand, and seem real portraits of living men and women; and the touches of human nature are as true to life as if the author had lived but yesterday. Of the two works it is difficult to decide which possesses the greater interest ... More

Both poems are marvels of poetic genius. In graphic descriptions, simplicity of style, and felicitous phrase, they are imsurpassed. Their characters are drawn by a master hand, and seem real portraits of living men and women; and the touches of human nature are as true to life as if the author had lived but yesterday. Of the two works it is difficult to decide which possesses the greater interest for the reader. While the former is full of fire and martial ardor, the latter concentrates the attention on a single character and holds our interest in his fortunes to the very last. The Story of the Odyssey has been called a ladys story, while the Iliad is more particularly a storj for men. A distinguished writer, Bently, says :T he Iliad Homer wrote for men ;the Odyssey for the other sex. There are good reasons for this opinion, for, as Richter remarks, women are more interested in persons, men in events. Besides, the Odyssey treats of several very beautiful and attractive women, who stand as typical of the virtues or traits with which they are endowed. There are Circe and Calypso, two beautiful and powerful goddesses who wished to win Ulysses for their lord; Nausicaa, the sweet and modest daughter of A lcinous, who found Ulysses shipwrecked on the shores of Phaeacia and saved his life ;while a glimpse is given us of the golden Helen and her daughter Hermione, whom Homer describes as beautiful as Diana.
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