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Bank on the grammar flowing: on Prynne's music

Was Prynne better than Hill?

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May 07, 2026
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The British poet J. H. Prynne died a couple of weeks ago, prompting several touching responses from his relatively small but loyal group of readers. Coincidentally, this past week I’ve been reading some of David Melnick’s weird and extraordinary version of the Iliad, Men in Aïda. That poem is an example of an unusual (but not unique) approach to transla…

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