Note 185 — Chapter I · THE TREATMENT OF NATURE IN ENGLISH CLASSICAL POETRY
Reading edition
Compare Ridley’s characteristic commendation of Christopher Pitt’s poems,
In every line, in every word you speak I read the Roman and confess the Greek,
and Pitt’s precept in Vida’s “Art of Poetry,” i, 102,
Explore the ancients with a watchful eye, Lay all their charms and elegancies by, Then to their use the precious spoils apply.