But the plan of the poem may have been suggested by some alexandrine model.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
For the form of some of his longer poems he has taken, and not with the happiest result, the alexandrine poets for his models.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
But making allowance for all these drawbacks, it is to the alexandrine culture that the education of the Roman sense of literary beauty is primarily due.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar