chapman, refusing to be burdened with a popular audience, begins a preface with the insidious compliment, "I suppose you to be no mere reader, since you intend to read Homer."
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos
Some of the deficiencies in sixteenth-century theory are supplied by chapman, who applies himself with considerable zest to laying down the principles which in his opinion should govern poetical translations.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos
In the first part of the new century the few minor translators who described their methods held theories much like those of chapman.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos