Verse Translation
Lucas dedicated much of his time to making classical poetry accessible to modern readers through verse translations. His Greek Poetry for Everyman (1951, Everyman Library 1966) and Greek Drama for Everyman (1954) (many reprints) were praised for their grace and fidelity, and were hailed by reviewers as "Cambridge’s single-handed answer to the Oxford Book of Greek Verse in Translation". With introductions and notes the two volumes were an ambitious project – nothing on this scale had been attempted by a single translator before, or has since. His versions pre-suppose, however, an understanding of metre and the caesura, and a taste for a poetic style closer to Morris than to Pound.
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