Trapp and brady, both of whom early in the century attempted blank verse renderings of the Aeneid, justify their use of this form on the ground that it permits greater faithfulness to the original.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos
brady intends to avoid the rock upon which other translators have split, "and that seems to me to be their translating this noble and elegant poet into rhyme; by which they were sometimes forced to abandon the sense, and at other times to cramp it very much, which inconveniences may probably be avoided in blank verse."
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos
Grateful though I am to them-deeply grateful-yet I know little of the personal history of the founder of this great hospital which now shelters me, or of that "Diamond Jim brady" who built and endowed this noble wing.
"Hospital Sketches"
Robert Swain Peabody
