Excerpt from Homer the Iliad: An Essay to Determine the Scope, and Character of the Original Poem This is a glorious plan, but it comes to us blurred by gross inconsistencies, flat repetitions, inexplicable delays. Small wonder that the fight has been bitter between those who refuse to believe that the harmony can be due to any thing but the creative genius of one mind, and those who ask how any man could have spoilt his own work by such unnecessary flaws. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.