Anonymous
7/16/2025, 9:19:18 AM No.24554436
What do you think of him?
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 4:19:52 PM No.24555038
>>24554436 (OP)
I like the poetry and Drama essays. I also have an old Modern Library Giant translation of (his) Plutarch's Lives.
I like the poetry and Drama essays. I also have an old Modern Library Giant translation of (his) Plutarch's Lives.
Anonymous
7/16/2025, 4:22:59 PM No.24555046
His translations are very good; the original poetry is skippable. He’s a superb technician but doesn’t have much imagination
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 4:34:44 PM No.24555064
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Anonymous
7/16/2025, 8:23:23 PM No.24555621
>>24555064
I think his Aeneid works better than Pope’s Homer. I think because the Aeneid is a more ‘civilised’ poem if that makes sense, that is it’s the product of a sophisticated poet in a sophisticated society. Dryden and Virgil are not so different.
While Pope is taking a wild and woolly Bronze Age yarn and trying to make it fit for polite society.
I prefer Dryden’s Ovid to Golding
I think his Aeneid works better than Pope’s Homer. I think because the Aeneid is a more ‘civilised’ poem if that makes sense, that is it’s the product of a sophisticated poet in a sophisticated society. Dryden and Virgil are not so different.
While Pope is taking a wild and woolly Bronze Age yarn and trying to make it fit for polite society.
I prefer Dryden’s Ovid to Golding