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Pindar : Odes
Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 November 1832: 'I have read, since I spoke to you last about my Greek reading, the last line of the last ode of Pindar, & have again gone thro' the Alcestis & the Troades; -- Besides this I have gone thro' the whole of the Aeneid except two books which I was familiar with, and half the Hebrew Bible. Forster's bible is in two quarto volumes, -- and one of them I have read regularly from beginning to end'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Pindar :
From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'Often, I believe, as life advanced, he would renew earlier familiarity with the great poets of all time [...] One evening [...] he read out off-hand Pindar's great picture of the life of Heaven in the second Olympian into pure modern prose, splendidly lucid and musical.'
