Post-Augustan poetry from Seneca to Juvenal

by Harold Edgeworth Butler

"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 cases to obscure their real merits, with the result that they are at times either ignored or subjected to unduly sweeping condemnation. I have attempted in these pages to detach and illustrate their excellences without in any way passing over their defects..."

178 pages.

323 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1969

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[Trina Branella · Rating 5 out of 5]

Its a keeper