Author: Weinbrot, Howard D.
Title: Augustus Caesar in "Augustan" England: The Decline of a Classical Norm
Description: Princeton, Princeton University Press, (1978). orig.cloth. 22x14cm, xi,270 pp. Minor rubbing, a slight dent to top binding edge, VG. dustwrapp ¶ Contents: The Classical Legacy of Augustus Caesar in "Augustan" England; The Legacy Improved: Augustus Praised & Blamed: His Personal Weaknesses & Destruction of Art; Augustus in Theory & Practice: Constitutional Balance &Political Activity; "Let Horace Blush & Vergil Too": The Degradation of the Augustan Poets; "Juvenal Alone Never Prostitutes His Muse": The Juvenalian Alternative; Pope's 'Epistle to Augustus': The Ironic & the Literal; Conclusion: Mutatis Mutandis; Appendix: Two Notes on Pope's ' Epistle to Augustus'.

Keywords: English Literature, Augustus Caesar, Literary History, Criticism, Classicism, Augustan England, Augustanism, Classical,