Of Lucan, as an example of the contrary practice, Hobbes said in his 'Discourse concerning the Virtues of an Heroic Poem,'
'No Heroic Poem raises such admiration of the Poet, as his hath done, though not so great admiration of the persons he introduceth.'
Letters to Atticus
, Bk. xiii., Ep. 44.
Poetics
, Lib. iii. cap. 25.