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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 110 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays 42 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 24 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 16 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 16 0 Browse Search
James Russell Lowell, Among my books 14 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: March 9, 1861., [Electronic resource] 14 0 Browse Search
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches 12 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 12 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: March 12, 1861., [Electronic resource] 12 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: March 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], An important letter. (search)
Poems of Homer. We are indebted to West Johnston for a copy of the lliad and Odyssey, published at Leipzig, by the world-renowned Taucto take his choice.-- He prefaces the book with a dissertation upon Homer and the Homeric poems, which seems to be the result of his own refn on the subject. It will be pleasing, doubtless, to any reader of Homer, who has more poetry than skepticism in his composition, to know thh their renown, have left no traces of their individual existence. Homer lived and sang many ages before the first stone had been laid for tthat the poems ascribed to them were forgeries of a much later age. Homer himself bears abundant testimony to the existence of a certain specransmitted, by recitation of their successors, to the time in which Homer lived. Out of these materials, no doubt, he formed the great worksByron, nobody could have written (or rather invented) the Iliad but Homer. There is an individuality about every great work, which can neithe