Значение слова BROOME в Литературной энциклопедии

BROOME

WILLIAM (1689-1745).-Poet and translator, _b._ at Haslington, Cheshire, and _ed._ at Eton and Camb., entered the Church, and held various incumbencies. He translated the _Iliad_ in prose along with others, and was employed by Pope, whom he excelled as a Greek scholar, in translating the _Odyssey_, of which he Englished the 8th, 11th, 12th, 16th, 18th, and 23rd books, catching the style of his master so exactly as almost to defy identification, and thus annoying him so as to earn a niche in _The Dunciad_. He _pub._ verses of his own of very moderate poetical merit.

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