2 Quotes by W. P. Ker

The last word of the Northmen before their entry in the larger world of Southern culture, their last independent guess at the secret of the Universe, is given in the Twilight of the Gods. As far as it goes, and as a working theory, it is absolutely impregnable. It is the assertion of the individual freedom against all the terrors and temptations of the world. It is absolute resistance, perfect because without hope.

The labor and meditation of all the world has not discovered, for the purpose of narrative, any essential modification of the procedure of Homer.