Ausonius-His Treatment of Nature in the "Mosella" Compared With That of Horace in His Odes

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Excerpt from Ausonius-His Treatment of Nature in the "Mosella" Compared With That of Horace in His Odes: ThesisIn the literary life of every nation, progress is made by the efforts of the individual writer-the man who leaves the path trodden by his pre decessors, -no matter how worthily and with What success those predecessors labored, -and strikes out across the untrodden fields of literary activity, be ginning a new path in which those after him may tread The first production E5 in a new line of work often, it is true, has many defects, and it is in ac cordance with the laws of progress that this should be so. Great credit, how ever, is due the man whose originality and ability gives him the power to bestow upon.mankind a new style of literature. The drama did not spring up into per fection with a single bound, but was many centuries in attaining its present state of development. The chronicle of primitive peoples has changed into the systema tically planned history of the present day. It is no discredit, then, to Ausonius that in rank he does not equal some of the later poets in this special field, for to him.undoubtedly belongs the honor of being the first distinctivenature poet that the Roman world ever produced. Though he did not break entirely with the writers before him, yet he strikes an entirely new chord on the harp of the Roman muses, and his poem.is what may be called a nature symphony.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.