Salvete,
A while ago I had to write an essay on book V of Lucanus' Pharsalia (as it turned out, mainly a comparison with Vergilius' Aeneis). It was a fairly exhaustive job, looking up articles in classical reviews from years ago, translating the entire book and so forth. The result is that Lucanus is now by far one of my favourite authors, even though I wasn't really a "fan" before.
So I wonder if there are others who have read him, and if so, what they think about him ?
It's interesting as well, because in secondary school I was more of the opinion that analysing a book ruined it, and here I am now, having worked for months on about 800 verses of Lucanus' Pharsalia, analysing it to the last comma and liking it even more !