/lit/ - Literature

>>5750611
>Comparative estimates of value are really inferences, most valid when silent ones, from critical practice, not expressed principles guiding its practice. The critic will find soon, and constantly, that Milton is a more rewarding and suggestive poet to work with than Blackmore. But the more obvious this becomes, the less time he will want to waste in belaboring the point. For belaboring the point is all he can do: any criticism motivated by a desire to establish or prove it will be merely one more document in the history of taste. There is doubtless much in the culture of the past which will always be of comparatively slight value to the present. But the difference between redeemable and irredeemable art, being based on the total experience of criticism, can never be theoretically formulated.

-Northrop Frye, Anatomy of Criticism

>I'd love to hear any modern literary critics comment on the historical setting's relevance of the Iliad

This is a valuable part of Homeric studies, e.g. pic related.