This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 edition. Excerpt: ... recourse to blank verse; but tben blank verse must de-Cowperise itself, must get rid of the habits of stiff self-retardation which make it say (Not fewer shone, ' for 'So many shone.' Homer moves swiftly: blank verse can move swiftly if it likes, but it must remember that the movement of such lines as A ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 edition. Excerpt: ... recourse to blank verse; but tben blank verse must de-Cowperise itself, must get rid of the habits of stiff self-retardation which make it say (Not fewer shone, ' for 'So many shone.' Homer moves swiftly: blank verse can move swiftly if it likes, but it must remember that the movement of such lines as A thousand fires were burning, aad by each... is just the slow movement which make us despair of it. Homer moves with noble ease: blank verse must not be suffered to forget that the movement of Came they not over from sweet Lacedsemon... is ungainly. Homer's expression of his thought is simple as light: we know how blank verse affects such locutions as While the steeds mouth'd their corn aloof... and such modes of expressing one's thought are sophisticated and artificial. One sees how needful it is to direct incessantly the English translator's attention to the essential characteristics of Homer's poetry, when so accomplished a person as Mr. Spedding, recognising these characteristics as indeed Homer's, admitting them to be essential, is led by the ingrained habits and tendencies of English blank verse thus repeatedly to lose sight of them in translating even a few lines. One sees this yet more clearly, when Mr. Spedding, taking me to task for saying that the blank verse used for rendering Homer 'must not be Mr. Tennyson's blank verse, '-declares that in most of Mr. Tennyson's blank verse all Homer's essential characteristics, --' rapidity of movement, plainness of words and style, simplicity and directness of ideas, and, above all, nobleness of manner, are as conspicuous as in Homer himself.' This shows, it seems to me, how hard it is for English readers of poetry, even the most accomplished, to feel deeply and permanently what Greek plainness of...
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