Homer, n.Definitions

Homer is the first and best of all books extant in all kinds.

Homer is the poet who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skilfully.

Homer is eminently rapid, eminently plain, eminently direct (in his syntax and in his words), and eminently noble.

Homer is a poet who poems were writ from a free fury, an absolute and full soul.

Homer is an author who not having read is like not having seen the ocean: there is a great object of which he has no idea.

Homer is pre-eminent among poets, for he alone combined dramatic form with excellence of imitation, so he too first laid down the main lines of comedy, by dramatizing the ludicrous instead of writing personal satire.

Homer is an observer who was always making the most unexpected observations, and painting things that were not only unpainted till then but, apparently, unseen by anyone else.

Homer is the most simple in his style of all the great poets, and resembles most the style of the poetical parts of the Old Testament.