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I have seen a translation by Hobbes, which I prefer for its greater clumsiness. Many years have passed since I saw it, but it made me laugh immoderately. Poetry that is not good can only make amends for that deficiency by being ridiculous...
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William Cowper, of Hobbes's translation of Homer, in a letter to Thomas Park (July 15, 1793), published in The Works of William Cowper: His Life and Letters by William Hayley, ed. T. S. Grimshawe, Vol. V (1835), p. 161

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