"ODYSSEY" AS FILM
MR. AMERY'S SUGGESTION " What a film the Odyssey would make,'' said Mr. L. S. Amery, M.P., during a recent address in London on Homer's epic poem. " From beginning to end it is arranged by one who was as supreme a scenario writer as he was a poet." Mr. Amery described the Odyssey as the best of all stories by the greatest of all poets in the noblest language ever designed for poetry. "We need no longer apologise for our instinctive conviction that, in the Iliad and Odyssey we are dealing," he said,; "not with crude compilations from originally disjointed ballads, but with finished masterpieces of consummate art, planned and worked out, each as a whole, in accordance with a recognised and highly developed literary technique. " For we now know that behind the poetic legends which Homer used as his quarry, stood a background of mighty historic events, whose outline, at first dimly described, is continually gaining in precision and fullness of detail."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22350, 22 February 1936, Page 38 (Supplement)
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