Letters Concerning Poetical Translations - And Virgil's and Milton's Arts of Verse, &c.

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Letters Concerning Poetical Translations, by William Benson This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Letters Concerning Poetical Translations And Virgil's and Milton's Arts of Verse, &c. Author: William Benson Release Date: January 18, 2006 [EBook #17548] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LETTERS CONCERNING POETICAL *** Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Carol David, Lesley Halamek and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net LETTERS CONCERNING Poetical Translations, &c. (Price One Shilling.) LETTERS CONCERNING Poetical Translations, AND Virgil's and Milton's ARTS of VERSE, &c. by William Benson L O N D O N: Printed for J. Roberts, near the O x f o r d - A r m s in W a r w i c k - L a n e. Mdccxxxix. [page 1] LETTER I. S I R, am now going to obey your Commands; but you must let me do it in my own way, that is, write as much, or as little at a time as I may have an Inclination to, and just as things offer themselves. After this manner you may receive in a few Letters, all that I have said to you about poetical Translations, and the resemblance there is between Virgil's and Milton's Versification, and some other Matters of the same nature.