Excerpt from Elements of Unity in the Homeric Poems The phase of the total Iliad as it draws toward its closing acts is notable. A change comes over it something like that in the later plays of Shakespeare as compared with the earlier. The rhythm seems insensibly modified, not strik ingly as in the other case; there is less tune. Deeper harmony; mo-re abruptness; nearer sense of the subject, enlargement of its features, as if words could not quite cover it, and re tirement of the broader groupings; the various classifications of cities, sections and allies, so familiar in the earlier books, give place by degrees to mere Greek and Trojans, then to the leading personages alone, as in'the conduct of a broad laid novel. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Selected verse from the Iliad and the Odyssey, edited by David Hopkins.