SOURCE: "The Poetry of Action," in Homer, Duckworth, 1972, pp. 141-64.
In the following essay, Bowra explores the dramatic quality of the Homeric epics, maintaining that although it "arises from action, it often goes beyond it and touches on the character of the actors, their thoughts and their feelings as their words reveal them. "
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