The History of Roman Literature / From the Earliest Period to the Death of Marcus Aurelius

by Charles Thomas Cruttwell

Virgil—His earliest verses—His life and character—The minor poems
—The Eclogues—The Georgics—Virgil's love of Nature—His aptitude
for epic poetry—The scope of the Aeneid—The Aeneid a religious poem
—Its relation to preceding poetry.

APPENDIX.—Note I. Imitations of Virgil in Propertius, Ovid, and
Manilius,
" II. On the shortening of final o in Latin poetry,
" III. On parallelism in Virgil's poetry,
" IV. On the Legends connected with Virgil.

CHAPTER III.

Horace (65-8 B.C.).

Horace—His life—The dates of his works—Two aspects: a lyric poet and a man of the world—His Odes and Epodes—His patriotic odes—Excellences of the odes—The Satires and Epistles—Horace as a moralist—The Ars Poetica—Horace's literary criticism—Lesser poets.

CHAPTER IV.

The Elegiac Poets—Gratius—Manilius.

Roman elegy—Cornelius Callus—Domitius Marsus—Tibullus—Propertius—
Ovid—His life—The Art of Love—His exile—Doubtful and spurious poems
—Lesser erotic and epic poets—Gratius—Manilius.

CHAPTER V.

Prose Writers of the Augustan Age.