Letters Concerning Poetical Translations
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Letters Concerning Poetical Translations is by William Benson. The text says whoever sits down to translate a Poet ought in the first place to consider his Author's peculiar Stile. A letter says that in a few Letters one may receive all that the writer has said about poetical Translations, and the resemblance there is between Virgil's and Milton's Versification.
The text speaks of two Translations of a passage, both by the same Hand, one exactly in the manner of Virgil and the other in the manner of Homer, made by the Reverend Mr. Pitt. The text turns to the second Particular, The Inversion of the Phrase, and says every Page affords Instances of this Nature. The text calls a point one of those Mysteries in Versification which the late Duke of Bucks would not suffer Mr. Dryden to communicate to the Publick. The text says Rhyme is certainly one of the chief Ornaments of Latin Verse.
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