>On 22 May 1998 Bill East <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I do think J.M. Neale does a fair job of picking up the
>nuances and
>allusions, and while his translations are not always great poetry, they
are
>metrically regular, and singable. He did a useful job in making the
English
>aware
>of the existence of a large body of hymnody in English and Greek.
Amen. Neale is perhaps the doyen of translators; although other stumble
into his level on occasion, he has no real peers. He must have steeped
himself very deeply in the culture and spirit of the texts.
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