In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how would this go for him? Would this do or not?

In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.

What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.

Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force of the wind and weather. That whole scene is too important in Homer to neglect.

Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was slightly different from either Latin or Greek.

There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.

I think that everyone who took part has always been grateful for it.