"I love the memory of Vinny Bourne. I think him a better Latin poet than Tibullus, Propertius, Ausonius, or any of the writers in his way, except Ovid, and not at all inferior to him."
— Vincent Bourne

January 1, 1970

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Poets from EnglandUniversity of Cambridge alumniClassical scholarsNeo-Latin writers
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William Cowper, Letter to John Newton (23 May 1781); Haley, Life and Posthumous Writings of Cowper, vol. 3 (1804) p. 76. Quoted as epigraph in The Poetical Works of Vincent Bourne (Oxford: Talboys and Wheeler, 1826) front matter