“The better production of our generation has been mainly lyrical and it has been widely diffused.”
J. C. Squire (1884–1958) British poet, writer, historian, and literary editor
Selections from Modern Poets, Complete Edition (1927), p. vi.
Introduction
The Common Background of Greek and Hebrew Civilizations (1965 [1962])
“The better production of our generation has been mainly lyrical and it has been widely diffused.”
J. C. Squire (1884–1958) British poet, writer, historian, and literary editor
Selections from Modern Poets, Complete Edition (1927), p. vi.
Cyrus H. Gordon (1908–2001) American linguist
Introduction
The Common Background of Greek and Hebrew Civilizations (1965 [1962])
Context: That both the Gilgamesh Epic and the Odyssey deal with the episodic wanderings of a hero, would not be sufficiently specific to establish a genuine relation between them. But when both epics begin with the declaration that the hero gained experience from his wide wanderings, and end with his homecoming, a relationship dimly appears.... when we note that whole episodes are in essential agreement, we are on firmer ground. For instance, both Gilgamesh and Odysseus reject a goddess's proposal for marriage; and each of the heroes interviews his dead companion in Hades.
Kenneth E. Boulding (1910–1993) British-American economist
Source: 1940s, The Economics of Peace, 1945, p. 252, quoted in Leonard Silk (1976) The Economists. New York: Basic Books. p. 208
Neal Stephenson (1959) American science fiction writer
"The Oral Tradition"
In the Beginning... was the Command Line (1999)
W. Douglas P. Hill (1884–1962) British Indologist
Source: The Bhagavadgītā (1973), p. 18. (12. The composition of the Bhagavadgītā)
Douglas Engelbart (1925–2013) American engineer and inventor
Source: Program On Human Effectiveness, 1996, https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/library/extra4/sloan/mousesite/Archive/Post68/PrHumanEffectiveness.html