elycon's

Updated: May 5, 2025

Caxton asserts that he had read Vergil, Ovid, and Tully, and quaintly adds, "I suppose he hath dronken of Elycon's well." In refreshing contrast with the artificial court poetry of the 15th and first three quarters of the 16th century, was the folk poetry, the popular ballad literature which was handed down by oral tradition.

Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers - From Chaucer to Tennyson