 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1875 - 552 páginas
...to embrace all forms. He would have made a great epic poet, if, indeed, he has not abundantly shown himself to be one ; for his Homer is not so properly...modern translations. His almost Greek zeal for the honour of his heroes is only paralleled by that fierce spirit of Hebrew bigotry, with which Milton,... | |
 | Edwin Markham - 1927 - 388 páginas
...Lamb thought that "Chapman would have made a great epic poet, if indeed he has not abundantly shown himself to be one; for his Homer is not so properly a translation as [it is] the stories of Achilles and Ulysses re-written. The earnestness and passion which he has put... | |
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He would have made a great epic poet, if indeed he has not abundantly shown himself to be one ; for his Homer is not so properly a translation as the stories of Achilles and Ulysses re-written. 
