Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 3, No. 237. Wednesday, 30 Sept. 1992.
(1) From: David Richman <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Tuesday, Sept. 29, 1992, 9:03:11 -0400 (EDT)
Subj: RE: SHK 3.0236 Hanmer Quotation Query
(2) From: Peter David Seary <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Tuesday, Sept. 29, 1992, 10:52:42 -0400
Subj: Re: SHK 3.0236 Hanmer Quotation Query
(3) From: Stephen Orgel <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Tuesday, Sept. 29, 1992, 22:56:52 PDT
Subj: Re: SHK 3.0236 Hanmer Quotation Query
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From: David Richman <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Tuesday, Sept. 29, 1992, 9:03:11 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: 3.0236 Hanmer Quotation Query
Comment: RE: SHK 3.0236 Hanmer Quotation Query
I could be mistaken, but I think someone (Warburton?) said of Pope's translation
of (*The Iliad* "A very pretty poem, Mr. Pope, but we must not call it
Homer." Steve Shankman's book *From Chapman's "Iliad" to Pope's* Princeton
University Press gives, I think, the quotation and source,
Cheers,
David Richman
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From: Peter David Seary <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Tuesday, Sept. 29, 1992, 10:52:42 -0400
Subject: 3.0236 Hanmer Quotation Query
Comment: Re: SHK 3.0236 Hanmer Quotation Query
The Hanmer quotation seems like a variation on the comment made by
Richard Bentley to Pope on his translation of the *Iliad*: "it is a
pretty poem, Mr. Pope, you must not call it Homer." See Thomas
Bentley, *A Letter to Mr. Pope, Occasioned by Sober Advice from
Horace* (London, 1735), p. 14. See also Maynard Mack, *Alexander
Pope, A Life* (New York: Norton, 1985), pp. 348, 877.
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From: Stephen Orgel <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Tuesday, Sept. 29, 1992, 22:56:52 PDT
Subject: 3.0236 Hanmer Quotation Query
Comment: Re: SHK 3.0236 Hanmer Quotation Query
The Hanmer quotation sounds like a play on the quip about Pope's Homer,
"A pretty poem Mr Pope, but you must not call it Homer."