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ON HOMERS POETRY
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Every Poem must necessarily be a perfect Unity, but why Homers is
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peculiarly so I cannot tell: he has told the story of
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Bellerophon & omitted the Judgment of Paris which is not only a
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part, but a principal part of Homers subject
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But when a Work has Unity it is as much in a Part as in the
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Whole. the Torso is as much a Unity as the Laocoon
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As Unity is the cloke of folly so Goodness is the cloke of
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knavery Those who will have Unity exclusively in Homer come out
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with a Moral like a sting in the tail: Aristotle says Characters
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are either Good or Bad: now Goodness or Badness has nothing to do
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with Character. an Apple tree a Pear tree a Horse a Lion, are
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Characters but a Good Apple tree or a Bad, is an Apple tree
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still: a Horse is not more a Lion for being a Bad Horse. that is
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its Character; its Goodness or Badness is another consideration.
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It is the same with the Moral of a whole Poem as with the Moral
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Goodness
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of its parts Unity & Morality, are secondary considerations &
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belong to Philosophy & not to Poetry, to Exception & not to Rule,
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to Accident & not to Substance. the Ancients calld it eating of
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the tree of good & evil.
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The Classics, it is the Classics! & not Goths nor Monks, that
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Desolate Europe with Wars.
