The Roman Poets of the Republic
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In preparing a second edition of this volume, which has been for some years out of print, I have, with the exception of a few pages added to Chapter IV, retained the first five chapters substantially unchanged. Chapters VI and VII, on Roman Comedy, are entirely new. I have enlarged the account formerly given of Lucilius inC hapter VIII, and modified the Review of the First Period, contained inC ha...
MoreIn preparing a second edition of this volume, which has been for some years out of print, I have, with the exception of a few pages added to Chapter IV, retained the first five chapters substantially unchanged. Chapters VI and VII, on Roman Comedy, are entirely new. I have enlarged the account formerly given of Lucilius inC hapter VIII, and modified the Review of the First Period, contained inC hapter IX. The short introductory chapter to theS econd Period is new. The four chapters on Lucretius have been carefully revised, and, in part, re-written. The chapter on Catullus has been re-written and enlarged, and the views formerly expressed in it have been modified. In the preface to the first edition I acknowledged the assistance I had derived from the editions of the Fragments of the early writers by Klussman, Vahlen, Ribbeck, and Gerlach ;from the Histories of Roman Literature by Bernhardy, Bahr, and Munk, and from the chapters on Roman Literature in Mommsen sR oman History; from a treatise on the origin of Roman Poetry, by Corssen; from Sir G. C. Lewis swork on The Credibility of Early Roman History ;from the Articles on the Roman Poets by the late Professor Ramsay, contained inS mith sD ictionary of Greek andR oman Biography and Mythology ;and from Articles by Mr. Munro in the Journal of Classical andS acred Philology. In addition to these I have.
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