See introduction to d2_MaiT_029. The conceit of this poem rests on the belief that Homer, the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, was blind. The painter referenced is unknown. Metre: elegiac couplets.
See introduction to d2_MaiT_029. The conceit of this poem rests on the belief that Homer, the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, was blind. The painter referenced is unknown. Metre: elegiac couplets.
In Homeri effigiem
Caecus erat, qualem pictor designat, Homerus,
sed quae non vidit, quam bene bella canit! 1
On Homer's likeness
Homer, as the painter represented him, was blind: but how well he sings of the war he didn't see!