"[Rowe's] version of Lucan is one of the greatest productions of English poetry; for there is, perhaps, none that so completely exhibits the genius and spirit of the original. Lucan is distinguished by a kind of dictatorial or philosophick dignity, rather, as Quintilian observes, declamatory than poetical; full of ambitious morality and pointed sentences, comprised in vigorous and animated lines. This character Rowe has very diligently and successfully preserved. ... The Pharsalia of Rowe deserves more notice than it obtains, and, as it is more read, will be more esteemed."
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Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 'Life of Rowe' (1781).
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Nicholas Rowe
Nicholas Rowe (1674β1718), English dramatist, poet and miscellaneous writer, was appointed Poet Laureate in 1715.
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