 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Literature - 1836 - 424 pages
...though a far truer one than Pope's epigrams, or Cowper's cumbersome most anti-Homeric Miltonism. For Chapman writes and feels as a poet, — as Homer might...lived in England in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. In short, it is an exquisite poem, in spite of its frequent and perverse quaintnesses and harshnesses,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Literature - 1836 - 434 pages
...though a far truer one than Pope's epigrams, or Cowper's cumbersome most anti-Homeric Miltonism. For Chapman writes and feels as a poet, — as Homer might...written had he lived in England in the reign of Queen Eliza-< beth. In short, it is an exquisite poem, in spite of its frequent and perverse quaintnesses... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 480 pages
...countrymen of that period. This is a hasty suggestion, and the more hasty because I want my supper. I have just finished Chapman's Homer. Did you ever read it ? It has most the continuous power of interesting you all along, like a rapid original, of any ; and, in the... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1838 - 478 pages
...countrymen of that period. This is a hasty suggestion, and the more hasty because I want my supper. I have just finished Chapman's Homer. Did you ever read it ? It has most the continuous power of interesting you all along, like a rapid original, of any ; and, in the... | |
 | 1846 - 602 pages
...Queene. It will give you a far truer idea of Homer than Pope's Epigrams, or Cowper's Miltonism. For Chapman writes and feels as a poet, — as Homer might have written had he lived in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.' hated for introducing no words, or idiom unsuited to the general style... | |
 | Edward Francis Rimbault - Ballads, English - 1851 - 304 pages
...with all its defects, is often exceedingly Homeric, which Pope himself seldom obtained." — Hallam. " Chapman writes and feels as a Poet— as Homer might...England in the reign of Queen Elizabeth." — Coleridge. " 1 have just finished Chapman's Homer. Did you ever read It?— it has the most continuous power of... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 556 pages
...though a fartruer one than Pope's epigrams, or Cowper's cumbersome most anti-Homeric Miltonism. For Chapman writes and feels as a poet, — as Homer might...lived in England in the reign of Q,ueen Elizabeth. In short, it is an exquisite poem, in spite of its frequent and perverse quaintnesses and harshnesses,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 512 pages
...epigrams, or Cowper's cumbersome most anti-Homeric Miltonism. For Chapman writes and. feels as a poet,—as Homer might have written had he lived in England in the reign of dueen Elizabeth. In short, it is an exquisite poem, in spite of its frequent and perverse quaintnesses... | |
 | Thomas Lathbury - Councils and synods, Provincial - 1853 - 596 pages
...all its defects, is often exceedingly Homerie, which Pope himfelf feldom obtained.'1 — Hallam. ** Chapman writes and feels as a Poet — as Homer might have written bad he lived in England in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. —CJirUgl. ul have juft finifhed Chapman's... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1855 - 634 pages
...countrymen of that period. This is a hasty suggestion, and the more hasty because I want my supper. I have just finished Chapman's Homer. Did you ever read it ? It has most the continuous power of interesting you all along, like a rapid original, of any ; and, in the... | |
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For Chapman writes and feels as a poet, - as Homer might have written had he lived in England in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. 
