Arts & Sciences
On Translations of Homer: Hexameters and Pentameters
From Poetical Works (1899)
Arts & Sciences
THESE lame hexameters the strong-wing'd music of Homer!
No—but a most burlesque barbarous experiment.
When was a harsher sound ever heard, ye Muses, in England?
When did a frog coarser croak upon our Helicon?
Hexameters no worse than daring Germany gave us,
Barbarous experiment, barbarous hexameters.
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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. “On Translations of Homer: Hexameters and Pentameters.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tennyson/342/.
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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. “On Translations of Homer: Hexameters and Pentameters.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tennyson/342/.
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