On The Author Of Letters On Literature.[1]
By William Cowper
The Genius of the Augustan age
His head among Romes ruins reard,
And, bursting with heroic rage,
When literary Heron appeard;
Thou hast, he cried, like him of old
Who set the Ephesian dome on fire,
By being scandalously bold,
Attaind the mark of thy desire.
And for traducing Virgils name
Shalt share his merited reward;
A perpetuity of fame,
That rots, and stinks, and is abhorrd.