| Evidence: | 'It is true, the excellence of the Iliad does not depend upon his merit or dignity, but I wish, nevertheless, that Homer had chosen a hero somewhat less pettish and less fantastic: a perfect hero is chimerical and unnatural, and consequently uninstructive; but it is also true that while the epic hero ought to be drawn with the infirmities that are the lot of humanity, he ought never to be represented as extremely absurd.' |
||||||||||
| Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1689 and 1 Sep 1717 | ||||||||||
| Country: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Type of Experience (Reader): |
|
||||||||||
| Type of Experience (Listener): |
|
||||||||||
| Reader: | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 1689 |
| Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
| Occupation: | Daughter of the fifth Earl of Kingston upon Hull. Wife of the British Ambassador to Constantinople. |
| Religion: | Christian |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | n/a |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Homer |
| Title: | Iliad |
| Genre: | Classics |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 12629 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | |
| Editor: | R. Brimley Johnson | |
| Title: | Letters from the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1709 to 1762 | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1906 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 149 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter from Wortley Montagu to Alexander Pope. Taken from the Kessinger Publishing's Reprint of 1906 edition published by J.M.Dent |
| Citation: | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu, R. Brimley Johnson (ed.), Letters from the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1709 to 1762 (London, 1906), n/a, p. 149, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12629, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
| Letter was written from Belgrade. |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)