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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... give it expression . Similarly , we should not suppose that the poems of gentle memory , like fr.94 , give love a lower importance . Rather , by contin- uing to dwell upon love even when it is over or can no longer attain fulfilment ...
... give it expression . Similarly , we should not suppose that the poems of gentle memory , like fr.94 , give love a lower importance . Rather , by contin- uing to dwell upon love even when it is over or can no longer attain fulfilment ...
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... give a man an erection , Juvenal continues , and again that voice springs into physical solidity , for he adds two words which give his sentence an appalling concreteness . ' Digitos habet ' ; and we sud- denly see those fingers playing ...
... give a man an erection , Juvenal continues , and again that voice springs into physical solidity , for he adds two words which give his sentence an appalling concreteness . ' Digitos habet ' ; and we sud- denly see those fingers playing ...
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... gives us a vision of the women nattering endlessly on about the eminence of her family . We can see that ' grande supercilium ' crushing the husband down ; and the phrase also seems to give this virago unattractively heavy features ...
... gives us a vision of the women nattering endlessly on about the eminence of her family . We can see that ' grande supercilium ' crushing the husband down ; and the phrase also seems to give this virago unattractively heavy features ...
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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