Excerpt from The Aeneid of Virgil: Translated Into English Verse

Dryden's style in poetry is sufficiently unlike that which finds most favor in the present day: but it can not be said to be Obsolete. And though in its minuter shades it affords rather a contrast than a parallel to Virgil's, they have at all events the common quality Of being really poetical, that inner identity which far outweighs a thousand points of external similarity, supposing these to be attainable. Pope, writing ao cording to his own genius, has produced something so utterly different, in all its circumstantial features, from the product Of Homeric genius, that an artist Of con fessedly inferior powers need not be discouraged from attempting the task again: but there was no such radi cal difference between the poet of Augustan Rome and the poet of Caroline England as to render it impossible that the masterpiece of the one should be adequately represented by the work which crowned the literary labors of the other.

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