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Page lxxi
It is the culmination of what may be called the "Prince of Poets"1 tradition, which
includes not only the translations of Chapman and Anne Dacier, but a mass of
Homeric lore and criticism, much of which, as noted on an earlier page, finds its ...
It is the culmination of what may be called the "Prince of Poets"1 tradition, which
includes not only the translations of Chapman and Anne Dacier, but a mass of
Homeric lore and criticism, much of which, as noted on an earlier page, finds its ...
Page lxxiii
Less prone to intellectual theorizing than the French, the English critical tradition
seems to have retained a firmer hold on the essential differences between the
two poets, and so avoided the absurdities of French "parallelismus". Jonson ...
Less prone to intellectual theorizing than the French, the English critical tradition
seems to have retained a firmer hold on the essential differences between the
two poets, and so avoided the absurdities of French "parallelismus". Jonson ...
Page cxiv
By Pope's time, the specific selection of resources in any given case had to be
made within the context of a translating tradition. To see the tradition at its worst
one has only to turn to Pope's Iliad m 476-7, where Pope's first edition, as noted ...
By Pope's time, the specific selection of resources in any given case had to be
made within the context of a translating tradition. To see the tradition at its worst
one has only to turn to Pope's Iliad m 476-7, where Pope's first edition, as noted ...
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