Synopsis
Excerpt from The Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus: Rendered Into English Verse
It is to be observed that, taken by themselves, none of these models can be altogether followed. In the Elizabethan drama there is much that is deficient in universality, that calls up rufi'led collars and pointed beards-verbal conceits, ephe meral mannerisms. The Hebraic language of the Bible is too primitive, to say nothing Of its dearth Of adjectives, to render the more complex and various language of Greek poetry. The classical constructions of Milton have never become part of English, and would be intolerable at second hand: they would give exactly that cast of cold and conventional unreality, which vitiates what one may call the Eighteenth Century ~view of Greek antiquity, and which it is one of the main pro-occupations of a translator to avoid.
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