HOMER - ARNOLD, Matthew.

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On Translating Homer, Three Lectures [... Last Words, a Lecture] Given at Oxford. First editions of the first published criticism by Matthew Arnold, who was primarily known for his poetry: "Here, taking the translation of the Iliad by F. W. Newman, brother of the theologian, as his main target, Arnold pilloried the tendency of learning to degenerate into antiquarianism and pedantry" (ODNB). From the library of English poet John Drinkwater, with his book label to the front pastedown of Last Words and his ownership inscription in ink to the front free binder's blank, dated 1920. In 1923 Drinkwater published some correspondence of Arnold with fellow poet Robert Browning in the literary journal The Cornhill Magazine.

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