Talk:Augustan poetry

A wording error, or an inconsistency:

"a member of the "Little Senate" of Addison's (see above) at Button's coffee shop.": Maybe I misunderstood something, but there's no mention of what is that Addison's and no reference to it anywhere above. Was it Joseph Addison, or was it another coffee shop, and what was that "little senate" at all? No further references found when just f*cking Googling for it. Maybe it is worth elaborating a little, or explaining the matter in a footnote or here. --193.232.65.51 09:32, 4 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Augustan literature in ancient Rome

I deleted the following false statement:

"This poetry was more explicitly political than the poetry that had preceded it, and it was distinguished by a greater degree of satire."

Absolutely not. The whole point is that in the transition from Republic to Imperial monarchy, Romans lost a degree of freedom of speech. Writers under Augustus had to become cagier in how they expressed themselves because they were subject to the emperor's whim. Satire is the most distinctively Roman genre of literature; it is characteristic of all periods, but its targets and relative directness change. Cynwolfe (talk) 16:33, 28 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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An article on an English literary topic needs to conform with standard English grammar and syntax better than this one does!!!

I started to correct hanging phrases, disagreements in number, etc., but I don't have time to go through the whole thing.

Most of the ideas make sense but there is a lot of awkward phrasing, as if perhaps an ESL scholar, or a student recapitulating their instructor's class notes, had written it--either without knowing how to write academic work, or in need of an editor. 108.7.186.137 (talk) 16:07, 14 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]