I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below.
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Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force of the wind and weather. That whole scene is too important in Homer to neglect.Robert Fitzgerald
There are probably 20 different stocks ... I will be bargain hunting, ... on how they react to the upcoming correction.
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All this was really a great advantage in making the language come nearer, at least to being a living one for me, than it might otherwise have been.
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One should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a vast amount he did understand about Homer.
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The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as the songs of Homer.
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Yes, living voices in a living language, so it seemed to us.
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