The abstract poet of that first period of mythology,
creating in this wholly impersonal, intensely spiritual way,--the
abstract spirit of poetry itself, rises before the mind; and, in
speaking of this poetical age, we must take heed, before all things,
in no sense to misconstrue the poets.
NOTES
94. +Transliteration: epaine Persephone. Translation: "dread
Persephone." See, for example, Odyssey, Book 10.490 and 563.
94. +"According to the apparent import of her name"; Pater likely
refers to the etymology of "Persophone"--"bringer of destruction."
95. *Theogony, 912-14:
+Transliteration:
Autar ho Demetros polyphorbes es lechos elthen
e teke Persephonen leukolenon, hen Aidoneus
herpasen hes para metros, edoke de metieta Zeus.
+Translation: "And he came to bountiful Demeter's bed, / and she
gave birth to white-armed Persephone, whom Aidoneus / took from her
mother's side; but Zeus, wise counsellor, gave her to him." Hesiod.
The Homeric Hymns and Homerica. Theogony. Cambridge, MA., Harvard
University Press. London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914.
103. *In the Homeric hymn, pre-eminently, of the flower which grew up
for the first time, to snare the footsteps of Kore, the fair but
deadly Narcissus, the flower of narke, the numbness of death.
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