The genius of the Augustan age <br />His head among Rome's ruins reared, <br />And bursting with heroic rage, <br />When literary Heron appeared, <br /> <br />Thou hast, he cried, like him of old <br />Who set the Ephesian dome on fir <br />By being scandalously bold, <br />Attained the mark of thy desire. <br /> <br />And for traducing Virgil's name <br />Shalt share his merited reward; <br />A perpetuity of fame, <br />That rots, and stinks, and is abhorred.<br /><br />William Cowper<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/on-the-author-of-letters-on-literature/
