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"Mr. Humphries' admirable and exciting translation makes it easy to grasp the shape and the magnitude of Lucretius' conception. It is a formidable task to put 7,500 Latin hexameter lines into English verse, but Mr. Humphries' easy, varied lines are thoroughly readable. (His) greatest success is in persuading the reader to see the poem as a whole, as a single, strange work of art, in which the mind of the natural philosopher is one with the mind of the poet." David Furley, The New York Times Book Review.
