... power and charm. Some gloss, however, is required to make it accessible for the average reader. Therefore, the best answer is moderation between translation and language which captures the beauty in a manageable form. Such a form is presented in The Norton Anthology of English Literature, from which can ... of the meter that the optionally pronounced "e" provides. Further translations go even further to lose the lyrical feel of the original. A modern translation by David Wright has the alliterative feel of the original, but none of the rhyming which lends smoothness to the lines. Another...

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... sweetest symphony he's ever heard. He is lying in a room whose walls have pictures of all the characters of the great European epic poems (all the quotes are from a modern translation): 'For the entire story of Troy was wrought in the glasswork thus: of Hector and of King Priam, of Achilles and of King Lamedon, and also of Medea and of ... ...

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... not been used before, but as the Oxford Dictionary shows, a number of these words were not to be found in any pervious writings now extant, is really immense; to his translation of Boethius, to his work on astrology, to his prose and poems are traced to a large number of our great and important words, besides many learned terms, such as, attention ... ...

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