[1] For an instance in little, see Hesiod, Theogony 483-585 in Works of Hesiod and The Homeric Hymns, trans. Daryl Hine (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005)


[2] Contrast Aeneid 2, 701-29 with 4, 296-330 in Virgil, Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid 1-6, ed. and trans. H. Rushton Fairclough, rev. G. P. Goold, Loeb Classical Library (1999; rpt. Cambridge: Harvard University Press,2006)


[3] John Dryden, ‘Preface to Fables Ancient and Modern’, in idem, Of Dramatic Poesy and Other Critical Essays, ed. and introd. George Watson, 2 vols (London: Dent and Sons, 1962), vol. 2, 280


[4] On the discourse of fame, see: Leo Braudy, The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986); Philip Hardie, Rumour and Renown: Representations of Fama in Western Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012); Antoine Lilti, The Invention of Celebrity, trans. Lynn Jeffress (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2017)


[5] Here, and in what immediately follows, I am drawing on material from my chapter, ‘Pope and Chaucer: Reconstructing The House of Fame in the Reign of Queen Anne’, to appear in Alexander Pope in the Reign of Queen Anne: Reconsiderations of His Early Career, eds A. D. Cousins and Daniel Derrin (forthcoming through Routledge)


[6] Reference to The House of Fame comes from The Riverside Chaucer, gen. ed. Larry D. Benson, 3rd edn (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987), 347-73


[7] Ovid, Heroides 7, at 5-6 and 63-4 in Heroides and Amores, ed. and trans. Grant Showerman, Loeb Classical Library (1921; rpt. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1947)


[8] Reference to The Temple of Fame is from Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems, ed. Geoffrey Tillotson, 3rd edn (1960; rpt. London: Methuen, 1966), 215-89.


[9] See my ‘Barron Field and the Translation of Romanticism to Colonial Australia’, Southerly, 58 (1998), 157-74


[10] Barron Field, First Fruits of Australian Poetry, ed. Richard Edwards (Sydney: Barn on the Hill, 1941). All reference to Field is from this edition


[11] Field’s persona there describes the Botany Bay colony as ‘a discordant state, / Yet big with virtues (though the flow’ry name / Which Science left it, has become a scorn / And hissing to the nations), if our Great / Be Wise and Good. So fairest Rome became!’ (10-14). Qualifications evidently hedge the Roman analogy. As the speaker would have it, a possibility does exist that the settlement might metamorphose into another Rome, but much depends on political discords having been resolved and on the colony’s governance coming into the hands of the best and brightest.


[12] ‘Australia’, in A. D. Hope, Collected Poems 1939-1965 (Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1966), 13