Selections from the Epigrams of M. Valerius Martialis ::

Selections from the Epigrams of M. Valerius Martialis

Translated or Imitated in English Verse: By W. J. Courthope

Courthope, William John (1842-1917)

IX.

IX IMITATIONS

Literary Fame

To Robert Browning: On his “Society”

Choice of a Profession

Delay in Revising Proof-sheets

[You learned by heart, and copied out]

Valediction to the Book

To the Public

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To Robert Browning: On his “Society”

Why, Browning, write in riddles, which in vain
Your own “Society” pretends t' explain?
Your sense is clear to German minds alone,
Who value Virgil less than Lycophron.
By these be praised! Our English verse should be
Social, but needing no “Society.”

University of Virginia Library

To Robert Browning: On his “Society”