In high school, we were assigned to compare Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad to Fagles et al, but I really missed out by skipping Pope's foreword—all the eighteenth century 🔥 dunks on his predecessors!!
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"Hobbes…is now and then guilty of mistakes, into which no writer of his learning could have fallen, but through carelessness. His poetry, as well as Ogilby's, is too mean for criticism." 💀💀
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