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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 22 (search)
s been translated fifteen times into French, thirteen into Italian, twelve times into Latin, and so on down through Greek, German, Portuguese, and Hebrew. No one poem in the English language, even by Longfellow, equals it in this respect. The editions which appeared in Gray's own time were kept correct through his own careful supervision; and the changes in successive editions were at first those made by himself, usually improvements, as where he changed some village Cato to some village Hampden, and substituted in the same verse Milton for Tully and Cromwell for Caesar. But there are many errors in Pickering's edition, and these have been followed by most American copies. It may perhaps be doubted whether Dr. Rolfe is quite correct in his opinion where he says in his preface to this ode, No vicissitudes of taste or fashion have affected its popularity ; it is pretty certain that young people do not know it by heart so generally as they once did, and Wordsworth pronounced its dia