His genius was one of those which, in any age, can form an era, and not that which an era necessarily forms.

He might have enriched his music from the strains of the Dorian lyres, but he required only one poet to have lived before him.

The rest of the Greek dramatists required Aeschylus--Aeschylus required only Homer.
The POET is, indeed, the creator, not of images solely, but of men-- not of one race of ideas and characters, but of a vast and interminable posterity scattered over the earth.

The origin of what wonderful works, in what distant regions, in what various time, may be traced, step by step, from influence to influence, till we arrive at Homer! Such is the vitality of genius.

The true spiritual transmigrator--it passes through all shapes--losing identity, but not life--and kindred to the GREAT INTELLIGENCE, which is the soul of matter--departing from one form only to animate another..