Persius

JD attended Westminster School , whose headmaster at this date was the legendary Richard Busby . When, years later, Dryden published a translation of the third satire of the Latin poet Persius , he reminisced...

CR demonstrates the widest possible reading: from Homer , Virgil and Horace (all revered) and Juvenal and Persius (used to prove that not all classical authors are admirable) through the heroic romances like those of...