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342 But how can a man with little English understand the art of Milton? How translate

And, equally, how translate into English the awful poetry of

or the poignant loveliness of

Listen again to the music first impatient, then languorous, then desperate of Phèdre:

Here we are presented with the almost comic fact that our greatest spiritual distresses may be enormously aggravated by some small physical discomfort which but for them we should not notice. Did Shakespeare ever invest psychological realism with a whiter flame of poetical intensity?

Admiration for Racine has swept me helplessly away from criticism of Mr Strachey. But I return from him with renewed admiration. Queen Victoria is a delightful fiction; the criticism on Racine a more delightful truth.