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In Latin literature, Augustan poetry is the poetry that flourished during the reign of Caesar Augustus as Emperor of Rome, most notably including the works of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid. In English literature , Augustan poetry is a branch of Augustan literature , and refers to the poetry of the 18th century, specifically the first half of the ...
Augustan literature is a period of Latin literature written during the reign of Augustus (27 BC–AD 14), the first Roman emperor. [1] In literary histories of the first part of the 20th century and earlier, Augustan literature was regarded along with that of the Late Republic as constituting the Golden Age of Latin literature , a period of ...
The Augustan era is difficult to define chronologically in prose and poetry, but it is very easy to date its end in drama. The Augustan era's drama ended definitively with the Licensing Act 1737 . Prior to 1737, however, the English stage was changing rapidly from the Restoration comedy and Restoration drama , and their noble subjects, to the ...
As a poet, Finch attained a modest amount of notoriety during her lifetime. In extension to her lyric poetry, odes, love poetry and prose poetry work, Finch's writing was considered to have fallen into the Augustan period (approximately 1660–1760). This is largely due to her work reflecting upon nature and finding both an emotional and ...
At the outset of the Augustan age, essays were still primarily imitative, novels were few and still dominated by the Romance, and prose was a rarely used format for satire, but, by the end of the period, the English essay was a fully formed periodical feature, novels surpassed drama as entertainment and as an outlet for serious authors, and ...
Poets following Virgil often refer intertextually to his works to generate meaning in their own poetry. The Augustan poet Ovid parodies the opening lines of the Aeneid in Amores 1.1.1–2, and his summary of the Aeneas story in Book 14 of the Metamorphoses, the so-called "mini-Aeneid", has been viewed as a particularly important example of post ...
The demand for great orators had ceased, [19] shifting to an emphasis on poetry. Other than the historian Livy, the most remarkable writers of the period were the poets Virgil, Horace, and Ovid. Augustan literature produced the most widely read, influential, and enduring of Rome's poets.
the period of Roman history when Augustus was the first emperor the period of Latin literature associated with the reign of Augustus: see Augustan literature (ancient Rome) the early 18th century in British culture, when writers and other intellectuals admired and emulated the original Augustan Age: see Augustan literature and Augustan poetry