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ON THE REFUSAL OF OXFORD TO SUBSCRIDBE TO HIS TRANSLATION by WILLIAM COWPER

Poet Analysis

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!"



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