Apollonius of Rhodes : Apollonius Rhodius (b.295 BC), Greek poet & grammarian of Alexandra & Rhodes, who wrote the Argonautica, an epic in four books, a Homeric imitation on the story of the Argonaut heroes.
... undigested learning into Alexandrianism and scholasticism, cutting itself off from the fountainheads of creation and wilfully preparing its own decline and sterility. The age of which Callimachus & Apollonius of Rhodes were the Simonides & the Homer and the age of which Tennyson is the Shakespeare & Rudyard Kipling the Milton present an ominous resemblance. Page 174 ...
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