... do not see how any one, after reading it, can look through a page of Bryant's version without a sense of its utter tameness and its want of almost all the qualities defined by Arnold as essential to Homer . Mr. Lawton has finely said, at the beginning of his admirable papers on Aeschylus in the Atlantic Monthly that the Homeric poems offer us, as it were, a glimpse of a landscape scene by a flash of...