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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... metaphor , and of mental 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 ...
... metaphor , and of mental 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 ...
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... metaphor , impressive in themselves and also serving to accentuate by antithesis the imagery in the earlier part of the frag- ment . He compares his love to a violent wind , by which his heart is shaken or crushed ( depending on how we ...
... metaphor , impressive in themselves and also serving to accentuate by antithesis the imagery in the earlier part of the frag- ment . He compares his love to a violent wind , by which his heart is shaken or crushed ( depending on how we ...
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... metaphorical , the metaphor is very close to reality , for the winds are indeed destroying her hopes by impelling Theseus away from her . A little later she assails his ingra- titude by asking him what sea spewed him forth , what Syrtis ...
... metaphorical , the metaphor is very close to reality , for the winds are indeed destroying her hopes by impelling Theseus away from her . A little later she assails his ingra- titude by asking him what sea spewed him forth , what Syrtis ...
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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