Postaugustan Poetry

By Butler, H. E.

Book Id: WPLBN0000634102
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Postaugustan Poetry
Author:	Butler, H. E.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
Preface: 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.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Post?Augustan Poetry, 1 -- H.E. Butler, 1 -- Preface, 1 -- Chapter I. THE DECLINE OF POST?AUGUSTAN POETRY, 2 -- Chapter II. DRAMA, 10 -- Chapter III. PERSIUS, 39 -- Chapter IV. LUCAN, 49 -- Chapter V. PETRONIUS, 64 -- Chapter VI. MINOR POETRY, 14?70 A.D, 72 -- Chapter VII. THE EMPERORS FROM VESPASIAN TO TRAJAN AND MINOR POETS, 85 -- Chapter VIII. VALERIUS FLACCUS, 90 -- Chapter IX. STATIUS, 101 -- Chapter X. SILIUS ITALICUS, 120 -- Chapter XI. MARTIAL, 127 -- Chapter XII. JUVENAL, 148