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Excerpt from T. Lucretius Carus of the Nature of Things: A Metrical Translation
Hauptmann, Ibsen, and Nietzsche the sort of thing it seems to be demanding of the Loch translators of the classics, Hauptmann, Ibsen, and nieteche would have still fewer readers in England and America and a still more distorted reputation than is their luck at present. The ideal seems to be that of the final examination paper and this is but a recrudescence of the idol of the book, of which mankind has heard so often before. It would be a triple shame if the worship of this idol drew our eyes away from the throbbing reality of the great living Roman, chief poet on the Tiber' 8 side, and still among the chief by all the rivers of earth.
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