Possible Clues:

• Writer Walpole
• Roman poet of the Augustan period
• Mann of education
• ''Ars Poetica'' poet
• Call on speed poet
• Roman poet; — Walpole
• This greeting to the people might be owed from him, by the sound of it
• Old Roman poet - it's a chore
• Did the old poet greet humanity like this?
• Sound as if one owed from him a greeting to the people