Princes and Poets
Niall Rudd, 4 August 1983
The Augustan Idea in English Literature
by Howard Erskine-Hill.
Arnold, 379 pp., £33.50, May 1983,0 7131 6373 9 Show More
by Howard Erskine-Hill.
Arnold, 379 pp., £33.50, May 1983,
Three Classical Poets: Sappho, Catullus and Juvenal
by Richard Jenkyns.
Duckworth, 242 pp., £24, May 1982,0 7156 1636 6 Show More
by Richard Jenkyns.
Duckworth, 242 pp., £24, May 1982,
“... In his immensely impressive book Dr Erskine-Hill shows how the example of Augustus was used as an inspiration, or as a warning, at every period from the Church Fathers to the end of the 18th century. Elizabeth’s reign had important Augustan features, but her court was not a source of literary patronage, and England did not occupy a central position on the international scene ... ”