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By W. Y. Sellar
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The work surveys the development of Roman republican poetry, tracing its indigenous Italian roots and extensive indebtedness to Greek models while arguing for distinctive Roman qualities such as national feeling, moral sentiment, and love of nature. It organizes the material into periods and treats major early figures and genres—epic, tragedy, comedy, satire, and lyric—offering close readings of Ennius, Lucilius, Lucretius, Catullus, and dramatists and discussing metrical forms, diction, and cultural context. The study balances literary description with historical and philological commentary to explain how imitation and originality combined in the formation of a Roman poetic tradition.

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Title: The Roman Poets of the Republic, 2nd edition

Author: W. Y. Sellar

Release date: February 20, 2015 [eBook #48323]
Most recently updated: October 24, 2024

Language: English

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Transcriber's Notes:

Obvious punctuation errors repaired.

The corrigenda et addenda listed on page xvi have been applied to the text.

Page 167: Original text 'curosity' replaced with 'curiosity'.

Page 139: Original text in footnote 'Thon' replaced with 'Thou'.

Page 359: Latin 'At, credo' more usually seen as 'An, credo' but text in this book not altered.

THE ROMAN POETS
OF
THE REPUBLIC

SELLAR

London

HENRY FROWDE

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE

7 PATERNOSTER ROW

THE ROMAN POETS
OF
THE REPUBLIC

BY

W. Y. SELLAR, M.A., LL.D.

PROFESSOR OF HUMANITY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
AND
FORMERLY FELLOW OF ORIEL COLLEGE, OXFORD

NEW EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED

OXFORD

AT THE CLARENDON PRESS

MDCCCLXXXI

[All rights reserved]

TO

J. C. SHAIRP, M.A. LL.D.,

PRINCIPAL OF THE UNITED COLLEGE, ST. ANDREWS,
PROFESSOR OF POETRY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD,

IN ACKNOWLEDGMENT
OF MUCH ACTIVE AND GENEROUS KINDNESS,
AND OF
A LONG AND STEADY FRIENDSHIP,
THIS VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.