proem
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Yet "the talent, capital, and supply chains underpinning the field are deeply intertwined across the United States and China," said Grace Shao, a China AI analyst and author of the AI Proem newsletter.
From Barron's • May 13, 2026
David Ferry more than succeeds in capturing the stateliness, as his rendering of the Proem, the epic’s introductory lines, into English blank verse shows:
From The New Yorker • Oct. 8, 2018
Take the last line of the Proem, with its climactic vision of what Ferry renders as “The lofty walls of Rome.”
From The New Yorker • Oct. 8, 2018
Gally attributes to Theophrastus the spurious "Proem," in which Theophrastus, emphasizing his ethical purpose, announces his intention of following up his characters of vice with characters of virtue.
From A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings From his translation of The Moral Characters of Theophrastus (1725) by Chorney, Alexander H.
The "Proem" only, "Once Into a Quiet Village," is by Longfellow, the other pieces are early contributions by Bryant, Lowell, Whittier, Emerson, and others.
From A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 2 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe by Various
