Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Specimens of the Classic Poets, Vol. 1: In a Chronological Series From Homer to Tryphiodorus
The prejudiced notion, which has been embraced by Mickle in the preface to his translation of the Lusiad of Camoe'ns, and by Sir William Jones in his Design of an Epic Poem, that blank verse requires obsolete and foreign idioms, inversions, and swelling epithets to distinguish it as poetry, if it be countenanced by the erroneous practice of some few poets, is refuted by the example of the best blank versifiers: by Milton in his most pathe tic passages; by Akenside, in his Pleasures of Imagination, and his Inscriptions and by Armstrong, in the most elegant didactic poem which, perhaps, was ever written. Yet has Dr. Johnson dogmatically pronounced, in his Life of Somerville, that if blank verse be not tumid and gorgeous, it is crippled prose.
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