William Broome
William Broome (
1689 -
1745) was an
English poet and
translator. He was born at
Haslington,
Cheshire and died in
Bath. He was educated at Eton and Cambridge, entered the Church, and He became rector of
Sturston in
Suffolk, and later
Pulham in
Norfolk and
Eye in Suffolk. He translated the
Iliad in prose along with others, and was employed by Pope, whom he excelled as a Greek scholar, in translating the
Odyssey, of which he Englished the 8th, 11th, 12th, 16th, 18th, and 23rd books, catching the style of his master so exactly as almost to defy identification, and thus annoying him so as to earn a niche in
The Dunciad. He also translated the Odes of
Anacreon. He published verses of his own of very moderate poetical merit.
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