Word: flawlessness
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Dates: during 1891-1891
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Cary, as is said, has Miltonized Dante and Mr. Longfellow's work while the best in metre is often misleading. In Professor Norton's translation the sense is rendered literally and almost word for word in prose, perfect in strength and elegance. The charm imparted by such flawless form in which each word chosen is felt to be the only word perfectly suited, is so great that one reads and forgets to miss the swing of a metre...
...have been dashed. While there are touches here and there which remind one of Browning, the conception of the poem as a whole shows a thoughtful originality, the simile of the martyr being particularly felicitious. The diction of the poem is admirable throughout and the mere metrical work is flawless...