Latin Literature

John William Mackail

Latin Literature
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Kessinger Publishing
Country
United States
Published
23 May 2010
Pages
196
ISBN
9781161438857

Latin Literature

John William Mackail

The poetic forms, on the other hand, used by Virgil were so much more on the main line of tendency that he stands among a large number of others, some of whom might have had a high reputation but for his overwhelming superiority. Of the other essays made in this period in bucolic poetry we know too little to speak with any confidence. But both didactic poetry and the little epic were largely cultivated, and the greater epic itself was not without followers. The extant poems of the Culex and Ciris have already been noted as showing with what skill and grace unknown poets, almost if not absolutely contemporary with Virgil, could use the slighter epic forms.

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