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Ray Davis's avatar

I have no Latin & less Greek, but in your translation the ode sounds heartfelt as Nemesis (AKA the blazes), centoed or not.

Adam Roberts's avatar

Heartfelt is right, I think: Coleridge genuinely cared about this.

I don't talk about the ironies of recreating the poetic idiom of Ancient Greece, itself of course a slave-owning culture, to oppose the slave trade.

Irwin and Cita Stelzer's avatar

I didn't know this poem. Thank you!