On Translating Homer: Three Lectures Given at OxfordLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 - 104 páginas |
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... blank verse is alien . The reputation of Cowper , that most interesting man and excellent poet , does not depend on his translation of Homer ; and in his preface to the second edition , he himself tells us that he felt — he had too much ...
... blank verse is alien . The reputation of Cowper , that most interesting man and excellent poet , does not depend on his translation of Homer ; and in his preface to the second edition , he himself tells us that he felt — he had too much ...
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... blank verse ; and it has a ra- pidity of its own . Chapman's diction , too , is generally good , that is , appropriate to Homer ; above all , the syntactical character of his style is appropriate . With these merits , what prevents his ...
... blank verse ; and it has a ra- pidity of its own . Chapman's diction , too , is generally good , that is , appropriate to Homer ; above all , the syntactical character of his style is appropriate . With these merits , what prevents his ...
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... blank verse . I do not add to these the Spenserian stanza , although Dr. Maginn , whose metrical eccentricities I have already criticised , pronounces this stanza the one right measure for a translation of Homer . It is enough to ...
... blank verse . I do not add to these the Spenserian stanza , although Dr. Maginn , whose metrical eccentricities I have already criticised , pronounces this stanza the one right measure for a translation of Homer . It is enough to ...
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... blank verse , and a third metre which I will not yet name , but which is neither the Spenserian stanza nor any form of ballad - verse -between which , as vehicles for Homer's poetry , the translator has to make his choice . Every one ...
... blank verse , and a third metre which I will not yet name , but which is neither the Spenserian stanza nor any form of ballad - verse -between which , as vehicles for Homer's poetry , the translator has to make his choice . Every one ...
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... blank verse offers itself for the translator's use . The first kind of blank verse which naturally occurs to us is the blank verse of Milton , which has been employed , with more or less modification , by Mr. Cary in translating Dante ...
... blank verse offers itself for the translator's use . The first kind of blank verse which naturally occurs to us is the blank verse of Milton , which has been employed , with more or less modification , by Mr. Cary in translating Dante ...
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On Translating Homer: Last Words. A Lecture Given at Oxford Matthew Arnold Visualização completa - 1862 |
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