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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... merely an opportunity for Sappho to exhibit her descriptive powers , or even to glorify the goddess , though this in ... mere mention of them drawing a chariot creates a picture of vigorous bustle , reinforced by pukna din- nentes . The ...
... merely an opportunity for Sappho to exhibit her descriptive powers , or even to glorify the goddess , though this in ... mere mention of them drawing a chariot creates a picture of vigorous bustle , reinforced by pukna din- nentes . The ...
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... merely hinted ; the essence is in understatement . It is ' witty ' , it is ' conceited ' , in the old sense of that word ; but though the fragment is usually dismissed as merely humorous , it seems to me to mask the most tender feeling ...
... merely hinted ; the essence is in understatement . It is ' witty ' , it is ' conceited ' , in the old sense of that word ; but though the fragment is usually dismissed as merely humorous , it seems to me to mask the most tender feeling ...
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... merely to contemplate this astonishing fact . Wonder and pity are sometimes closely allied ; our sympathy for Ar- iadne , whether in Strauss or in Catullus , may even be enhanced by the obtruded reminder that she is merely the creation ...
... merely to contemplate this astonishing fact . Wonder and pity are sometimes closely allied ; our sympathy for Ar- iadne , whether in Strauss or in Catullus , may even be enhanced by the obtruded reminder that she is merely the creation ...
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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