. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. between distinguished scribblers or obsequiousliterary craftsmen. Thus we get a second courtly period ofliterature like that of the Ptolemies at Alexandria, like that ofLouis XIV. or of our own Stuart age when poets wrote toplease individual patrons. The patron, if he be a man of taste,generally demands a very high degree of finish, and thus it isthe courtly ages which produce the finished craftsmanship. Itmay be remarked that the ages of private patronage have giventhe world much of its greatest literature. In the age
. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. between distinguished scribblers or obsequiousliterary craftsmen. Thus we get a second courtly period ofliterature like that of the Ptolemies at Alexandria, like that ofLouis XIV. or of our own Stuart age when poets wrote toplease individual patrons. The patron, if he be a man of taste,generally demands a very high degree of finish, and thus it isthe courtly ages which produce the finished craftsmanship. Itmay be remarked that the ages of private patronage have giventhe world much of its greatest literature. In the age of Augustus there was no censorship of letterssuch as generally prevailed under the stricter emperors of laterdays. Livy was permitted to publish his great history withoutcurtailment of its strong republican tendency. When libelsand pasquinades appeared against Caesar he was content to con-tradict them in a proclamation. Nevertheless he made hisinfluence weightily felt in the world of letters. He gave morethan ;i^10,000 to Varius for a tragedy which posterity has not232.
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