The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age Horace And the Elegiac Poets
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But his style is exceptional and peculiar to himself. The true character assumed by the Latin elegy, in ancient times and in its modern imitations, is the liquid smoothness of Tibullus or the buoyant and sparkling rapidity of Ovid. The CH. I] CHANGE OF LITERARY TASTE 215 delight of the ear entered at all times largely into the Roman enjoyment of oratory and poetry; and that was now diverted from the larger and more sonorous utterances of great orators to the recitation or chanting of those smoo...th-flowing couplets, falling pleasantly on the sense of hearing and immediately suggestive of luxurious sentiment or vivid pleasure. Education, more than at any other time, prepared men and women for this kind of literature. The authors studied were almost exclusively poets, and to a large extent those who treated of love. Even the training of an orator was more poetical than strictly oratorical. Little interest was felt in history and philosophy or severer studies and pursuits of any kind. The great literary teachers of the previous generation, Greek and Latin, Parthenius and Cato, had been themselves poets; and, by the character of their compositions, a guide to the younger generation of poets towards paths on which poetry now entered.
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