DEPARTMENT OF LITERATURE. CHIEF REPRESENTATIVE. DATE. CHIEF WORKS. SOME INFLUENCES ON FOREIGN TRIBUTARIES TO ENGLISH LITERATURE. SOME EFFECTS ON ENGLISH WRITERS. Epic Verse HOMER Ninth century, B.C.? ILIAD—martial O´DYSSEY—romantic Imitated by Virgil (_Aenéid_), and thence affecting Dante, Tasso, etc. The _Iliad_ translated by Chapman (Elizabethan), Pope, Cowper, etc. Milton’s _Paradise Lost_ is ultimately based on Homer (+ Virgil + Dante). Abundance of characters, similes, etc., incorporated by all our literature. Didactic Verse (Epic metre) HE´SIOD Eighth century, B.C. WORKS AND DAYS—agricultural THEOGONY—pedigree of the Gods Imitated by Virgil (_Georgics_) First model for much (mostly unimportant) didactic work, _e.g._ Tusser’s _Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry_ (Elizabethan), and the verses of Dyer, Green, Darwin, etc. (eighteenth century). Lyric Verse SAPPHO (and Lesbian School) fl. 610 B.C. ODES of love (mostly lost) ANA´CREON fl. 530 B.C. ODES of love and wine Imitated by Catullus and Horace, and thence by Italian and French lyrists. In English the influence was chiefly through Horace: Keynote to many of the Elizabethan and Caroline songs, _e.g._, in Davidson’s _Poetical Rhapsody_, Herrick, Suckling, etc. Moore translates _Odes of Anacreon_ (many spurious). Modern _vers de société_. PINDAR (Simónides, etc.) fl. 470 B.C. ODES of victory (OLYMPIAN, ISTHMIAN, etc.) One of the models of Horace. Deliberately imitated by Italians, _e.g._, Chiabrera. Directly imitated by Cowley (_Pindaric Odes_), Dryden (_Song for St. Cecilia’s Day_, _Alexanders Feast_), Pope (_Ode on St. Cecilia’s Day_), Gray (_Progress of Poesy_), etc. Tragic Drama AE´SCHYLUS fl. 490-456 B.C. PLAYS (7 extant, _e.g._ _Agamemnon_, _Prometheus_). SO´PHOCLES fl. 465-405 B.C. PLAYS (7 extant, _e.g._, _Antigone_, _Ajax_). EURI´PIDES fl. 450-406 B.C. PLAYS (17 extant, _e.g._, _Alcéstis_,_Iphigenía_). Imitated on wrong principles by Latin writers, _e.g._, Seneca, from whom false notions of “classical” drama came into France (Corneille and Racine). Effect on English drama mostly so far as that drama was affected by Italian or French influence (pre-Shakespearean and post-Restoration). Attempts at “classical” drama in Milton’s _Samson Agonistes_, Addison’s _Cato_, Swinburne’s _Atalanta in Calydon_. Much use of Greek subject-matter and characters, _e.g._, by Shelley