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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... light or kindle , or in the passive to burn or blaze ; so the word suggests not only the moving leaves , but the effects of sparkling light that they produce . Now the leaves of apple trees are glossy on their upper surfaces , and when ...
... light or kindle , or in the passive to burn or blaze ; so the word suggests not only the moving leaves , but the effects of sparkling light that they produce . Now the leaves of apple trees are glossy on their upper surfaces , and when ...
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... light or space . ( There may also be a bitter joke : the muchos was where the stores were kept , and the underworld is a ' storehouse ' of dead souls . ) No wonder that he sobs aloud - anastaluzō , a striking word . Anacreon's means are ...
... light or space . ( There may also be a bitter joke : the muchos was where the stores were kept , and the underworld is a ' storehouse ' of dead souls . ) No wonder that he sobs aloud - anastaluzō , a striking word . Anacreon's means are ...
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... light that dominates this passage spreads through the poem ; Catullus ' self - conscious masterpiece gleams as though it were a visible artefact . ' Quanto saepe magis fulgore expalluit auri ' ( 100 ) ( ' How much paler than the gleam ...
... light that dominates this passage spreads through the poem ; Catullus ' self - conscious masterpiece gleams as though it were a visible artefact . ' Quanto saepe magis fulgore expalluit auri ' ( 100 ) ( ' How much paler than the gleam ...
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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