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Excerpt from Propertius
It is vain then to seek for principles of craftsman ship in second-rate models: there is no authority to give an answer. Mr. A. Lang ingeniously observes that poetical words in English should be used to translate poetry. Yes: but tautology, charming form of argument as it is, should be complete. If he had said that poetry should be translated into poetry, his statement would have been impregnable. But the day is past when English could be approved for poetical merely in virtue of certain quaint archaic vocables spotted about in sentences of quite modern rhythm and construction. Samuel Butler's Odyrrey, horrifying as it was by the want of conventional quaintness and unreality, has done more to help us towards an eventual solution.
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