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They praised the pre-Augustan writers, the Elizabethan dramatists, the seventeenth-century humorists and moralists, the Sidneian amourists and fanciful sonneteers, at the expense of their classical successors.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

An understanding of pre-Augustan conditions, in which these diverse historical and literary trends were merged, is essential, for without it the subject is unintelligible.

From Christian Hymns of the First Three Centuries by Messenger, Ruth Ellis

The Roman poets of the pre-Augustan and Augustan periods, unlike Horace, were all well born.

From Horace by Martin, Theodore