Excerpt from Verse Translations From Classic Authors These translations have been made from time to time during the last ten years for the use of my more advanced pupils, and I have found them of very great assistance in producing that effect oflife and reality which is often sosadly to seek in the translation of the schoolboy or undergraduate. I have observed on many occasions that a free verse translation has been far more serviceable in helping a form or an individual to catch the inner meaning of a classic poet, than the most accurate word-for-word version though the latter, of course, has its very useful and proper place, which it is in no danger of losing in these days of revision and re-revision of texts, collating and estimating manuscripts, and revolution ising our established notions in ancient history, literature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.