Teks asli (Inggris)

POST-AUGUSTAN POETRY From Seneca to Juvenal By H.E. BUTLER, Fellow of New College PREFACE I have attempted in this book to provide something of an introduction to the poetical literature of the post-Augustan age. Although few of the writers dealt with have any claim to be called poets of the first order, and some stand very low in the scale of poetry, as a whole the poets of this period have suffered greater neglect than they deserve. Their undeniable weaknesses tend in many