The Works of the British Poets, Vol. 53: Including the Most Esteemed Translations From the Greek and Roman Authors (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from The Works of the British Poets, Vol. 53: Including the Most Esteemed Translations From the Greek and Roman Authors

It was in the course of these studies, he con tracted an intimate friendship with Aulns Persius the Satirist. It is no wonder that two men whose genius were so much alike should unite and be come agreeable to one another; for if we consider Lucan critically, we shall find in him a strong bent. Towards satire. His manner, it is true, is more declamatory and diffuse than Persius: but satire is still in his View; and the whole Pharsalia appears to me a continued invective against ambition and unbounded power.

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Excerpt from The Works of the British Poets, Vol. 53: Including the Most Esteemed Translations From the Greek and Roman Authors

I could not resist Mr. Rowe's request in his last sickness, nor the importunities of his friends since, to introduce into the world this his posthumous translation of Lucan, with something by way of preface. I am very sensible how much it is out of my sphere, and that I want both leisure and materials to do justice to the author, or to the memory of the translator. The works of both will best plead for them, the one having already outlived seventeen ages, and both one and the other like to endure as long as there is any taste of liberty or polite learning left in the world. Hard has been the fate of many a great genius, that while they have conferred immortality on others, they have wanted themselves some friend, to embalm their names to posterity. This has been the fate of Lucan, and perhaps may be that of Mr. Rowe.

All the accounts we have handed down to us of the first, are but very lame, and scattered in fragments of ancient authors.

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