GEORGE (1557–1634), the earliest English translator of Homer, was born in Kent. He studied at Trinity College, Oxford, where he was distinguished for his superior classical attainments. On his removal to London he enjoyed the friendship of Shakspeare, Spenser, Marlow, and Johnson. Besides translations from Ovid, Homer, Terence, Musaeus, and Petrarch, he wrote numerous tragic and comic pieces. His translation of Homer has elicited a glowing tribute from Keats in one of his most beautiful sonnets.