On Translating Homer: Three Lectures Given at Oxford |
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accent Achilles Andromache antiquated applied to Homer ballad-manner ballad-style blank verse Chapman Chapman's version Cowper dactyl Dante Divine Comedy duces effect of Homer Elgin marbles Elizabethan eminently English hexameters English poetry epic epic poetry epithets expression fault feel fires garrulous genius give grammar grammatical style grand style Greek grotesque Hector hexameter Homer's manner Homer's movement Homer's plain Homer's poetry Homer's style Iliad impression instance judges language lator literary literature loose and idiomatic Maginn manner and movement matter metre Milton Moll Flanders mortal moss-trooping National Review never Newman Newman's version Nibelungen Lay noble original passage Patroclus Peleus plainness and directness poem poetical Poor wretched beasts Pope Pope's Priam produced prosaic quaint quoted rapidity render Homer reproduce rhyme rhythm scholar Scott Shakspeare Shakspeare's Spenser spondee steeds thee thou thought trans translating Homer translation of Homer translator's Trojans truly un-Homeric words Xanthus Zeus γὰρ καὶ