Classical Influences on English Poetry

Achilles admired Aeneas Aeneid Aeschinus ancient atque called Catullus century character Chaucer classical comedy comes couplet course Creon criticism death Demea didactic doubt drama Dryden Eclogues elegiac elegy Elizabethan English poetry epic epigrams famous feel Georgics give gods Greek haec Hector heroic Hesiod Homer Horace Horatian Idylls Iliad imitated influence Juvenal kind king Latin least lines literary literature Lucan Lucilius lyrical matter mediaeval Menaechmus metre Micio middle ages mihi Milton mind modern natural neque never odes Odyssey Oedipus original Ovid Paradise Lost passage pastoral perhaps Persius Pharsalia Pindar Plautus play poem poetic poets Pope quae quid quod reader renaissance rhetoric Roman satire satirist scholar Seneca Shakespeare Shelley shepherd stanzas Statius story style Tennyson Terence thee Theocritus thing thir thou tibi tion traditional tragedy translation Trojans Troy true verse Virgil words writing written Zeus