text:  Analyze this war; make out for yourself distinctly the story of which in a poem one always too easily loses the sequence delight and emotion making one less observant; then understand the poetical workings out in their places and after their bearings; and you will satisfy yourself that although the cleaving of heads and the transpiercing of trunks and the hewing off of limbs are processes that must always keep up a certain general resemblance to themselves you have not a campaign imitated from the Iliad; but an original one--proper to person and place