...been repeated to Pope, than that Bentley should have said to the poet at Bishop Atterbury's table, ' A pretty poem, Mr Pope, but you must not call it Homer.' This was gossip dramatising the cause of the grudge. Then Pope's friendship with Atterbury and Swift...

...brilliant achievement. Its general character is best indicated by what Bentley and Gibbon said of it : "It is a pretty poem, Mr. Pope, but you must not call it Homer," was Bentley 's reply, when Pope asked him whether he had received " his Homer." " It has," says Gibbon,...

...liberties. This is shown in the celebrated judgment of his contemporary, the great Greek scholar, Bentley: " A pretty poem, Mr. Pope, but you must not call it Homer." Pope probably followed Homer as well as he could; but his equipment for his task was very slight. He...

...inferior to the balladlike version of the Elizabethan poet Chapman. Bentley's criticism is comprehensive: "It is a pretty poem, Mr. Pope, but you must not call it Homer." It was impossible for an Englishman, living in the artificial, bewigged age of Queen Anne, to reproduce...

...translation of Homer. One of the noblest monuments of our literature, notwithstanding Bentley's criticism: it is a pretty poem, Mr. Pope, but you must not call it Homer. Milton. Through these years we have been following, another influence may have been working — we...

...Anecdotes. 1. 34. Neither of the rivals can be said to have translated the Iliad. Bentley's phrase, "A pretty poem, Mr. Pope, but you must not call it Homer," expresses the uniform view taken from the first by all who could read both (Leslie Stephen). Page 75,...

...original. It brings Homer before us in a dress-suit. Bentley's criticism was exactly to the point : " It is a pretty poem, Mr. Pope, but you must not call it Homer." Yet it is a wonderful work ; and Johnson was not far wrong when he said, " It is certainly the noblest...

...attempt that. Scholars who know the original will be provoked into repeating the words of Bentley : " It is a pretty poem, Mr. Pope, but you must not call it Homer." But regarded simply as a readable poem, reproducing the substance of the Homeric story in a style of...

...been repeated to Pope, than that Bentley should have said to the poet at Bishop Atterbury's table, " A pretty poem, Mr. Pope, but you must not call it Homer." This was gossip dramatising the cause of the grudge. Then Pope's friendship with Atterbury and Swift...

...competent authorities as to Pope's fidelity to the Greek, when he bluntly said to the translator himself, " It is a pretty poem, Mr. Pope, but you must not call it Homer." In comparison with this celebrated sentence of Bentley's on Pope's work, put the following expression...