Monday, October 04, 2010
The Most Entertaining Book
William Cowper, letter to William Unwin (October 22, 1785):
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The most entertaining books are best to begin with, and none in the world, so far as entertainment is concerned, deserves the preference to Homer. Neither do I know, that there is anywhere to be found Greek of easier construction. Poetical Greek I mean; and as for prose, I should recommend Xenophon's Cyropaedia. That also is a most amusing narrative, and ten times easier to understand than the crabbed Epigrams and Scribblements of the minor poets, that are generally put into the hands of boys.
