On the Study of Celtic Literature and on Translating Homer (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from On the Study of Celtic Literature and on Translating Homer To mark clearly to the reader both this provisional character of much which I advance, and my own sense of it, I have inserted, as a check upon some of the positions adopted in the text, notes and comments with which Lord Strangford has kindly furnished me. Lord Strangford is hardly less distinguished for know ing ethnology and languages so scientifically than for knowing so much of them 5 and his interest, even from the vantage-ground of his scientific knowledge, and after making all due reserves on points of scien tific detail, in my treatment, - with merely the re sources and point of view of a literary critic at my command, - oi such a subject as the study of Celtic Literature, is the most encouraging assurance I could have received that my attempt is not altogether a vain one. 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.