Three Classical Poets: Sappho, Catullus and JuvenalDuckworth, 1982 - 243 sider In this engaging essay Richard Jenkyns shows us how to read three quite different ancient poets. In a close and sensitive reading of Sappho, Catullus, and Juvenal, Jenkyns delineates the uniqueness of the poet's individual voice in relation to poetic traditions. His book constitutes a challenge to the view that one method will suffice for the interpretation of ancient poetry. He seeks to demonstrate that we can have no substitute for flexible and humane judgment, liberated from critical dogma, if we are to understand the great writers of the past. It is Jenkyns' appealing habit to clarify and illustrate his points by drawing analogies from modern and ancient literature. He deploys his wide learning with agility and grace. |
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... experience them physically as well as mentally , but at the same time we lose the capacity to analyse our experiences , so that we can hardly tell whether they belong to the mind or the body . It is Sappho's achievement to have found ...
... experience them physically as well as mentally , but at the same time we lose the capacity to analyse our experiences , so that we can hardly tell whether they belong to the mind or the body . It is Sappho's achievement to have found ...
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... experience . " The flame leaped up him , under his skin ' - the words come from D. H. Lawrence ( The Rainbow , ch . 1 , sect . 2 ) , but Sappho had said it , and said it much better , more than two and a half thousand years before . pur ...
... experience . " The flame leaped up him , under his skin ' - the words come from D. H. Lawrence ( The Rainbow , ch . 1 , sect . 2 ) , but Sappho had said it , and said it much better , more than two and a half thousand years before . pur ...
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... experience is paradoxical : it seems to clarify and illuminate the understanding , and yet its nature seems to be inexpl- icable in human language . Sappho's words mirror this strange com- bination of lucidity and obscurity ; there is ...
... experience is paradoxical : it seems to clarify and illuminate the understanding , and yet its nature seems to be inexpl- icable in human language . Sappho's words mirror this strange com- bination of lucidity and obscurity ; there is ...
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Achilles adjective Aeneid Alcaeus Anacreon Anactoria Aphrodite apple Ariadne Ariadne's beauty begins Catullus charm clause context contrast critics dactyls described echoes effect emotional Ennius epic epithet example expression eyes fantasy feeling flower fragment garden Georgics girl give goddess gods Greek Homer Horace Ibycus idea imagination Juvenal Juvenal's kind language later Latin Lesbia less literally literary literature look Lucretius means metaphor mood moral mythological Naevolus nature neoteric once Ovid paradox paraprosdokian passage passion Peleus and Thetis perhaps phrase picture piece poem poet poet's poetic poetry quae reader realise reality Roman Sapphic stanza Sappho Satire scene seems sense sentence similar simile simple song sound spondees stanza style suggest suppose symbol T. S. Eliot tells theme Theocritus Theseus things tone verb verse Virgil Virro visual vivid wedding words writing δὲ καὶ