Comparative mythology corpus

Poetic Fire As Animating Force

1 appearances across 1 tradition groups.

Evidence

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Greek The Iliad CONCLUDING NOTE. / INTRODUCTION. / THEODORE ALOIS BUCKLEY. / POPES PREFACE TO THE ILIAD OF HOMER; lines 1209-1300 high Homer's invention is said to produce fire and rapture; everything moves and lives; the reader becomes hearer or spectator; his verse is compared to an army and to fire sweeping the earth, and his fancy to a chariot-wheel becoming fire by rapidity. record