"I have also read the four first books of Lucan's Pharsalia, a poem as it appears to me of wonderful genius and transcending Virgil."
— Lucan

January 1, 1970

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Percy Bysshe Shelley, letter to T. J. Hogg (22 September 1815), in The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, Vol. VII (1880), p. 348