Brandeis University
Spring semester, 2003
ENG 171A: History of Literary Criticism
Miles Rind
February 25, 2003

ASSIGNMENT FOR FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28

        Reading: (1) Edward Young, excerpt from Conjectures on Original Composition (CT, 329–337)
        (2) Sir Joshua Reynolds, Discourses on Art, III (CT, 343–347)
        (3) William Blake, Annotations to Reynolds’ “Discourses”, on Discourse III (CT, 403–407)

        Question: Young asserts that “he who imitates the divine Iliad, does not imitate Homer” (p. 331b). Why not? What would it mean to imitate Homer, according to Young?


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