The Odyssey

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Someone on Michael Dirda's chat posted this lovely passage by John Cowper Powys about Homer's Odyssey online yesterday:

"There is no poem in the world in which the dramatic significance of the revolving hours of the day plays so dominant a part. From the earliest rising of 'rosy-fingered dawn' upon her twilit 'dancing lawns,' till the moment when 'all the ways grow dark' we are made aware of the huge ethereal background against which we are fated to yield or endure, to perish or survive."
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