As one of the chief difficulties of the homeric controversy arises from our ignorance of the power of the memory during an age when poetry and song were in the fullest life, but the use of letters was either unknown, or extremely limited; so there is a parallel difficulty in all attempts to explain the origin of early Roman history, from our ignorance of the power of oral tradition in a time of long established order, but yet unacquainted with any of the forms of literature.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
Her confidence, at once pathetic and humorous and contemptuous, augmented Kurt's homeric mood.
"The Desert of Wheat"
Zane Grey
Now scholars are all agreed that the authors of the homeric poems had many predecessors in the art of composing poetry for many ages back down into legendary times.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell