Ok so here is what I found about Lucretius:
He was a client/friend of Gaius Memmius
Parts of the poem suggest that it was published without revision: most speculate this was due to his untimely death
De rerum natura was his only work
The purpose of de rerum natura is to free people from superstition and fear of death
And as magister P said it is an epic poem about philosophy
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