Abstract
Comparison of the two poem cycles the Venetian Epigrams and the Roman Elegies usually falls out in the latter's favour. The Epigrams are thought to reflect Goethe's unhappy experience in Venice in 1790, to imitate the cynical epigrams of Martial, and to lack the poetic coherence of the Elegies. This paper shows that the Epigrams have more in common with the Elegies than is usually supposed. As well as imitating Martial, they draw on Juvenal's satires, with which they share a coherent, if deeply ironic, poetic and moral outlook.
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