In later years Lucas won acclaim for his translations from the classics (see Verse translation below) and for his book "Style" (1955). He also turned encyclopedist, contributing articles on 'Poetry', 'Epic', 'Lyric', 'Ode', 'Elegy' and 'Pastoral' to the 15-volume 1950 Chambers's Encyclopaedia, among others, and serving on the editorial board of the Encyclopædia Britannica's "Great Books of the Western World" series (1952). As he told Nikos Kazantzakis, who visited him in Cambridge after the War, "Je ne lis plus; je relis" [:I no longer read; I reread].