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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON THE AUTHOR OF 'LETTERS ON LITERATURE', by WILLIAM COWPER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: The genius of the augustan age
Last Line: "that rots, and stinks, and is abhorred."
First Line: The genius of the augustan age
Last Line: "that rots, and stinks, and is abhorred."
THE genius of the Augustan age
His head among Rome's ruins reared,
And bursting with heroic rage,
When literary Heron appeared,
"Thou hast," he cried, "like him of old
Who set the Ephesian dome on fire,
by being scandalously bold,
Attained the mark of thy desire;
"And for traducing Virgil's name
Shalt share his merited reward;
A perpetuity of fame,
That rots, and stinks, and is abhorred."
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