The Influence of Milton On English Poetry

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The same purpose animated William Sewell (Singleton's successor at Radley school) in the blank- verse rendering of the Georgics which he brought out in 1846 and (after entirely rewriting it) republished in 1854. To judge from the specimen Conington gives (Quart. Rev., ex. 107), it is too Miltonic to be easy or flowing. Sewell's Agamemnon (1846) and his Odes and Epodes of Horace (1850), translated like his Georgics "literally and rhythmically," I have not seen.
* Aeneid, iii. 465-72.
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...S: VIRGIL 33 1 and in some few cases even whole lines, from Milton, Shakspeare, etc.," ^ as in this passage: He spake; and straight the duteus Power prepares His sire's behest to speed: first to his feet His winged shoon he ties of downy gold. . . .
Here first, hovering on balanced wings, down dropt CyUene's god; thence to the flood full swoop Throws his steep flight. ^ G. K. Rickards's rendering of the first six books of the Aeneid (187 1) is abler, more concise, and less Miltonic than Singleton's or Thornhill's; yet in avoiding the "debilitating expansion of the sense " he lost what he himself thought " the highest merit of a poeti- cal translation," that it should "read like an original" and "pre- serve .


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