Archilochus - Frederic Will (essay date 1969)
Frederic Will (essay date 1969)
SOURCE: “From Sense to Attitude,” “Ideas,” “A Gathering of Fragments,” “Archilochos and Classical Antiquity,” and “Archilochos and Our Day,” in Archilochos, Twayne's World Authors Series, Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1969, pp. 39-91.
[In the following excerpt, Will examines Archilochus's point-of-view, ideas, and critical reputation both in his own and in modern times.]
FROM SENSE TO ATTITUDE
Thus we believe that a certain intelligibility mixed with a certain obscurity exists in every true work of poetry.
Jacques and Raïssa Maritain, Situation de la Póesie
Sense-experience as an ingredient in Archilochos' poetry makes a subtle topic. There are some preserved instances of limpid sense-experience in which the sensuous flavor of meter speaks into the texture of an expressed world, the world of the girl with the myrtle, of the columnar...
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