>Since Dryden the metre of our Poets leads to the Sense: in our elder and more genuine Poets the Sense, including the Passion, leads to the metre.

>To read Dryden, Pope &c, you need only count syllables; but to read Donne you must measure Time, & discover the Time of Each word by the Sense & Passion.

>>24492004 (OP)
>His Iliad translation appeared between 1715 and 1720. It was acclaimed by Samuel Johnson as "a performance which no age or nation could hope to equal".

>>24492019
This isn't the smoking gun you think it is.

I feel as though AI has destroyed the heroic couplet and tarnished Pope and Drydens works, even in retrospect, because it is the form AI gravitates towards