"I think Statius a truer poet than Lucan, though he is very extravagant sometimes."
— Statius

January 1, 1970

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, remark (dated 2 Sept. 1833) in Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. II (1835), p. 262