On Quintus Smyrnaeus and the Homer of the Tragic Poet (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Paley, Frederick Apthorp

9780656040315: On Quintus Smyrnaeus and the Homer of the Tragic Poet (Classic Reprint)

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I purposely made my own careful perusals (not once, but several times) of the work of Quintus, before I referred to literary accounts, not only of the author's history, if known, but of his general merits as a poet. And I must say I was somewhat sur prised at the disparaging verdict by which he is almost put out of the category, so to say, of poets deserving any consideration at all.5 The following is from K. O. Muller's and Donaldson's History of Grecian Literature (vol. Iii. P.

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