3 MARCH 1923, Page 22

POETRY AND DRAMA.

Milton made use of the Easter Song of Sedulius in "Paradise Lost," and it is mainly this that has recommended it to later generations. Professor Sigerson has here translated the poem into sound and correct verse and has brought together much evidence to prove that Sedulius was an Irish scholar and introduced Irish modes of thought and versification into his Latin hexameters. The arguments from metrical form do not seem wholly convincing many of the alliterative peculiarities might occur in the verse-structure of any language, and several Latin hymns of. non-Irish authorship could as easily be shown to be under Gaelic influence.