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and the enthusiasm with which he celebrates his own artistic poetry:
The clever man had an instinctive assurance that he had spread his sails to a prosperous breeze; Greek tragedy became, and thenceforth remained, a possession of the Latin nation.
Through less frequented paths, and with a less favourable wind, a bolder mariner pursued a higher aim. Naevius not only like E
Recitative poetry also took its rise during this epoch at Rome. Livius naturalized the custom which among the ancients held the place of our modern publication - the public reading of new works by the author - in Rome, at least to the extent of reciting them in his school. As poetry was not in this instance practised with a view to a livelihood, or at any rate not directly so, this branch of it was not regarded by public opinion with such disfavour as writing for the stage: towards the end of this epoch one or two Romans of quality had publicly come forward in this ma
Above all, lyrical, didactic, and epigrammatic poetry found but feeble representation. The religious festival chants - as to which the a
The attempts at a metrical treatment of the national a