Theognis Restitutus —— The Personal History of the Poet Theognis

----- Theognis Restitutus

ISBN: 9781331783282 出版年：2016 页码：120 Forgotten Books

With the Poets above mentioned, verse was the vehicle of their feelings and passions, excited as they were by the tumult of an agitated existence; Feuds, Factions, Expatriation to distant Colonies. Sudden usurpations, revolution and exile were the elements by which they were surrounded, and of whose influence they partook; and they themselves appear sometimes, to have been among the leading Spirits of these tempests; the faculty of composing animated and po pular poetry; giving to the person who applied it to party purposes, a power of producing impressions, less forcible indeed in the first instance, but more durable and diffusive than the effect of oratory.