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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... literally struck dumb , literally blinded , literally greener than grass , and any- way Sappho's reactions to the sight of the man and the girl are , by normal standards , so exaggerated that to say that a description of them is not ...
... literally struck dumb , literally blinded , literally greener than grass , and any- way Sappho's reactions to the sight of the man and the girl are , by normal standards , so exaggerated that to say that a description of them is not ...
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... literally below the ground , literally beneath our feet ; we seem to see the dying man still calling out for children as he is dragged away , downwards to Hades . This sense of the physical actuality of the underworld is far more ...
... literally below the ground , literally beneath our feet ; we seem to see the dying man still calling out for children as he is dragged away , downwards to Hades . This sense of the physical actuality of the underworld is far more ...
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... literally true that Theseus is breaking his promise in leaving Ariadne , and literally true that the wind is blowing as he departs ( and indeed assisting his escape , since the implication is presumably that he is using sail as well as ...
... literally true that Theseus is breaking his promise in leaving Ariadne , and literally true that the wind is blowing as he departs ( and indeed assisting his escape , since the implication is presumably that he is using sail as well as ...
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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