Matthew Arnold Quotes

Wordsworth says somewhere that wherever Virgil seems to have composed ‘with his eye on the object’, Dryden fails to render him.Homer invariably composes ‘with his eye on the object’, whether the object be moral or a material one: Pope composes with his eye on his style, into which he translates his object, whatever it is.
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