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Excerpt from Vergil
The poetry of Vergil may be roughly said to sum up and represent the poetical tendencies and traditions of the greco-roman world. Though an Italian, and therefore not free from the defects entailed by his literary surroundings, Vergil was able, by his wonder ful power Of style, to produce work which marks the climax of a particular kind of poetry, which completes and embodies in itself much that preceding poets had been striving after, and which gave the law to succeeding generations of writers. Often as it was imitated, his style was never equalled in its own kind, still less was it ever superseded; it domi mated all subsequent Latin poetry and exercised a powerful in¿uence even upon Latin prose. It may therefore not be inappropriate to notice one or two Of' the main characteristics of that classical poetry of which Vergil is a representative.
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