The effect, to be sure, is precisely that which they describe, and is, furthermore, the actual source of the conception of epic which they themselves hold, and with them all writers decisively influenced by classical antiquity. But the true cause of the impression of “retardation” appears to me to lie elsewhere – namely, in the need of the Homeric style to leave nothing which it mentions half in darkness and unexternalized.
-Erich Auerbach
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