This episode is also found in Clement of Alexandria, in Stephen of Byzantium ( Kopai and Argunnos ), and in Propertius, III with minor variations.

I must have written to say how much I had enjoyed his fine book The Building Of Eternal Rome, and I found he had not regretted giving me the highest mark in his old course on the later Latin poets, although in my final examination I had ignored the questions and filled the bluebook with a comparison of Propertius and Coleridge.

Roman poets, including Propertius, Ovid, and Statius, name the river as the Styx, perhaps following the geography of Virgil ’ s underworld in the Aeneid, where Charon is associated with both rivers.

Ancient Roman poets regularly used phrases such as " walls of Telegonus " ( e. g. Propertius 2. 32 ) or " Circaean walls " to refer to Tusculum.

According to Quintilian ( 10. 1. 58 ) he was the chief of the elegiac poets ; his elegies were highly esteemed by the Romans ( see Neoterics ), and imitated by Ovid, Catullus, and especially Sextus Propertius.

Mimnermus in turn exerted a strong influence on Hellenistic poets such as Callimachus and thus also on Roman poets such as Propertius, who even preferred him to Homer for his eloquence on love themes ( see Comments by other poets below ).

The Monobiblos must have attracted the attention of Maecenas, a patron of the arts who took Propertius into his circle of court poets.

Horace, however, says that he would have to " endure much " and " stop up his ears " if he had to listen to " Callimachus ... to please the sensitive stock of poets "; Postgate and others see this as a veiled attack on Propertius, who considered himself the Roman heir to Callimachus.

Maecenas endeavoured also to divert the less masculine genius of Propertius from harping continually on his love to themes of public interest.

" Lachmann also edited Propertius ( 1816 ); Catullus ( 1829 ); Tibullus ( 1829 ); Genesius ( 1834 ); Terentianus Maurus ( 1836 ); Babrius ( 1845 ); Avianus ( 1845 ); Gaius ( 1841-1842 ); the Agrimensores Romani ( 1848-1852 ); and Lucilius ( edited after his death by Vahlen, 1876 ).

( Glauce is also known in Latin works as Creusa — see Seneca the Younger's Medea and Propertius 2. 16. 30.

It is also possible that Propertius had children, either with Cynthia or a later liaison.

This interpretation also implies that Propertius ' style represented a mild reaction against the orthodoxy of classical literary theory.

This judgement also seems to be upheld by Quintilian, who ranks the elegies of Tibullus higher and is somewhat dismissive of the poet, but Propertius ' popularity is attested by the presence of his verses in the graffiti preserved at Pompeii.

Goethe's 1795 collection of " Elegies " also shows some familiarity with Propertius ' poetry.

Sextus Propertius also described the town as a " den of licentiousness and vice " in one of his elegies.

They all, particularly Propertius, drew influence from Callimachus, and they also clearly read each other and responded to each other's works.

The Roman love elegy of Tibullus, Propertius and Ovid ( Amores, Heroides ), with its focus on the poetic " I " and the expression of personal feeling, may be the thematic ancestor of much medieval, renaissance, Romantic and modern lyric poetry, but these works were composed in elegiac couplets, and so were not lyric poetry in the ancient sense.

Eliot's personae were Prufrock and Sweeney, Pound's were Cino, Bertran de Born, Propertius, and Mauberley.

Pound's Homage to Sextus Propertius and Hugh Selwyn Mauberley and Eliot's The Waste Land marked a transition from the short imagistic poems that were typical of earlier modernist writing towards the writing of longer poems or poem-sequences.

It is difficult to precisely date many of Propertius ' poems, but they chronicle the kind of declarations, passions, jealousies, quarrels, and lamentations that were commonplace subjects among the Latin elegists.

The foremost elegiac writers of the Roman era were Catullus, Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid.

The most important of the year-round watercourses is the Clitunno River, celebrated in Antiquity as the Clitumnus whose deified waters were reputed to have miraculous properties, and which have been lauded in prose and verse by Pliny the Younger, Propertius, Claudian, Addison, Byron and Carducci.

Housman obtained a first in classical Moderations in 1879, but his immersion in textual analysis, particularly with Propertius, led him to neglect ancient history and philosophy, which formed part of the Greats curriculum, and thus he failed to obtain a degree.

Housman continued pursuing classical studies independently and published scholarly articles on such authors as Horace, Propertius, Ovid, Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles.

Catullus, the first of these, is an invaluable link between the Alexandrine school and the subsequent elegies of Tibullus and Propertius a generation later.

1175-1280 ( c. 250 BC ); Bibliotheca 1. 9. 19, 2. 7. 7 ( 140 BC ); Sextus Propertius, Elegies, i. 20. 17ff ( 50 – 15 BC ); Ovid, Ibis, 488 ( AD 8 – 18 ); Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, I. 110, III. 535, 560, IV. 1-57 ( 1st century ); Hyginus, Fables, 14.

The Latin elegy reached its highest development in the works of Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid.

Expressions in Propertius seem to imply that Maecenas had taken some part in the campaigns of Mutina, Philippi and Perugia.

Notable practitioners of elegiac poetry have included Propertius, Jorge Manrique, Jan Kochanowski, Chidiock Tichborne, Edmund Spenser, Ben Jonson, John Milton, Thomas Gray, Charlotte Turner Smith, William Cullen Bryant, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Evgeny Baratynsky, Alfred Tennyson, Walt Whitman, Louis Gallet, Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, William Butler Yeats, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Virginia Woolf.

Virgil worked on the Aeneid during the last ten years of his life ( 29 – 19 BC ), commissioned, according to Propertius, by Augustus.

* Propertius, poet ( b. c. 50 – 45 BC )

* Sextus Propertius, Elegies, 3. 14.

( Pierrots were legion among the minor, now-forgotten poets: for samples, see Willette's journal The Pierrot, which appeared between 1888 and 1889, then again in 1891.

Roeselare's minor seminary is famous for having hosted the famous Flemish poets Guido Gezelle, Albrecht Rodenbach and missionary Jesuit Constant Lievens.

The principal editions since have been those by Kaspar von Barth ( 1623 ), P Bunyan ( 1731, in his edition of the minor Latin poets ), Ernst Friedrich Wernsdorf ( 1778, part of a similar collection ), August Wilhelm Zumpt ( 1840 ), and the critical edition by Lucian Müller ( Teubner, Leipzig, 1870 ), and another by Vessereau ( 1904 ); also an annotated edition by Keene, containing a translation by George Francis Savage-Armstrong ( 1906 ).

In the 20th century, few Western poets became interested in Indian thought and literature, and the interest of many of those was minor: T. S. Eliot studied Sanskrit at Harvard, but later lost interest.

Though Century magazine published her poem, " With a Copy of Shelley ," in 1889, she quickly became disillusioned over the limited earnings available for poets, saying: " The minor painter or sculptor was honored with large annual awards in our greatest cities, while the minor poet was a joke of the paragraphers, subject to the popular prejudice that his art thrived best on starvation in a garret.

Nikolay Nekrasov, when listing Russian poets in 1850, praised Tyutchev as one of the most talented among " minor poets ".

He imitated Petrarch, Ariosto, Sannazaro, and still more closely the minor Italian poets, and in 1604 a number Of his plagiarisms were exposed in the Rencontres des Muses de France et d ' Italie.

Lives of famous poets from Chaucer to Longfellow: with lists of minor poets whose biographies are not included.

Himself a minor poet, and married to Sylvia Lynd who was widely published, his sympathies as shown in this selection were most largely with figures from the Irish literary revival, and the Georgian poets.

His best poems, such as " The Venus of Milo ," " The Fool's Prayer " and " Opportunity ," gave him a high place among the minor poets of America, which might have been higher but for his early death.

In style a bombastic imitator of Virgil, he shows, nevertheless, a certain freedom in the handling of the Biblical story, and the poem soon became a quarry for the minor poets.

His first work consisted of fragments from the minor Greek poets, with notes ( Elegiaca Graeca, 1759 ); and in 1763 he published a fine edition of the inscriptions among the Arundel marbles, Marmora Oxoniensia, with a Latin translation, and a number of suggestions for supplying the lacunae.

He may be fairly compared to the minor poets of the reign of Anne ( Garnett ).

Others required more expansive theological and poetic efforts: though both Ares and Mars are war gods, Ares was a relatively minor figure in Greek religious practice and deprecated by the poets, while Mars was a father of the Roman people and a central figure of archaic Roman religion.

Taking to the country and provincial cities, Donald spends his time doing research for a book on the English by consorting with journalists and minor poets, attending a country house weekend, serving as private secretary to a Member of Parliament, attending the League of Nations, and playing village cricket.

Jean Jacques Porchat ( 1800 – 1864 ) was one of the most prominent among the minor poets of the region, very French owing to his long residence in Paris, and best remembered probably by his fables, first published in 1837 under the title of Glanures d ' Esope ( reissued in 1854 as Fables et paraboles ), though in his day his stories for the young were much appreciated.

Rist soon became the central figure in a school of minor poets.