Le Brun, a Jesuit, wrote what he called a Christian Virgil, and a
Christian Ovid. The Virgil consists, of Eclogues, Georgics, and an
Epic of twelve books, all however on devotional subjects. The Ovid is
in the same taste. The Epistles are pious ones--the Fasti are the six
days of the Creation--the Elegies are the Lamentations of
Jeremiah--the Art of Love is a poem on The Love of God, and the
history of some Conversions supplies the place of the Metamorphoses.