Note 37 — Homeric Translation in Theory and Practice A Reply to Matthew Arnold By Francis W. Newman
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Ballad-manner! The prevalent ballad-metre is the Common Metre of our Psalm tunes: and yet he assumes that whatever is in this metre must be on the same level. I have professed (Pref. p. x) that our existing old ballads are ‘poor and mean’, and are not my pattern.