While previous studies have concentrated largely upon political
concerns, The Augustan Art of Poetry is an exploration of the
influence of the Roman Augustan aesthetic on English neo-classical
poets of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. At the
conclusion of his translation of Virgil, Dryden claims implicitly
to have given English poetry the kind of refinement in language and
style that Virgil had given the Latin. In this timely new study
Robin Sowerby offers a strong apologia for the fine artistry of the
Augustans, concentrating in particular on the period's
translations, a topic and method not hitherto ventured in any
full-length comparative study. The mediation of the Augustan
aesthetic is explored through the De Arte Poetica of Vida
represented in the Augustan version of Pitt, and its culmination is
represented by examination of Dryden's Virgil in relation to
predecessors. The effect of the Augustan aesthetic upon versions of
silver Latin poets and upon Pope's Homer is also assessed and
comparisons are drawn with modern translations.
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