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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON THE REFUSAL OF OXFORD TO SUBSCRIDBE TO HIS TRANSLATION, by WILLIAM COWPER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Could homer come himself, distressed and poor Last Line: "begone! No tramper gets a farthing here!" Subject(s): Hate; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Oxford University; Poetry & Poets; Translating & Interpreting; Iliad; Odyssey | |||
COULD Homer come himself, distressed and poor, And tune his harp at Rhedycina's door, The rich old vixen would exclaim (I fear) "Begone! no tramper gets a farthing here!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE EPIC STARS by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE CHILDHOOD OF HOMER by MARY KINZIE HOMER'S SEEING-EYE DOG by WILLIAM MATTHEWS THE RETURN OF THE GREEKS by EDWIN MUIR HOMER IN BASIC by KENNETH REXROTH THE HOMERIC HEXAMETER [DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED] by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER by JOHN KEATS A COMPARISON by WILLIAM COWPER |
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