I'm reminded of the fourteeners in
>Goulding's translation of the _Metamorphoses_ (which Pound called the
>most beautiful book in English). They take time to get used to.
Is that the translation you'drecommend? Is it still in print?
>
>think the greatest delight, in finding expressed with unexpected
>precision, what one already knows.
>
> The _Vulgar_ thus through _Imitation_ err;
> As of the _Learn'd_ by being _Singular_;
> So much they scorn the Crowd, that if the Throng
> By _Chance_ go right, they _purposely_ go wrong;
> So Schismatics the _plain Believers_ quit,
> And are but damned for having _too much Wit_.
> (Es. on Crit., 424-29)
>
>I think quite a few people on this list would rather be wrong and then
>be caught expressing an accepted view. The fear of conformity is
>probably the greatest weakness of U.S. intellectuals in the 20th and
>21st centuries.
Ironic, given how conformist they are.
jks
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