Some Masterpieces of Latin Poetry, Thought Into English Verse

ISBN: 9781331220060 出版年：2016 页码：227 W Stebbing Forgotten Books

I owe an explanation of the present volume's appearance so soon after that on Greek Dramatic and Bucolic Poetry. Both are instalments of a collection of specimens of Greek and Latin Poetry thought by me into English verse. In 1907 I published The Poets: Chaucer to Tennyson; later, revised and reprinted as Five Centuries of English Verse. I have occupied and delighted the subsequent years with a sort of analogous service to the general lovers of poetry, not professed scholars, in respect of Greek and Latin poetry.At least I did not hope to save labour, and have not spared it. Throughout the more than ten years devoted to the work I have continually been revising. Thus it is impossible even for myself to know how much energy has been devoted here or there. Measurement of thought is difficult. A verse may have cost me days to think from the original, while another corresponds at once, as if English born and bred. A result is that I have found bunches of charming Latin blossoms, willing, at whatever sacrifice of grace, to reflower in English air; and here they are!