PART III. EPIC POETRY


STUDIES IN THE POETRY OF ITALY


PART I

THE DRAMA

"Whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own features, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure."

1. THE BEGINNINGS OF ROMAN LITERATURE
AND OLD ROMAN TRAGEDY