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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... mind . Yet there are no verbal echoes , nothing that can be easily pinned down . In Catullus ' poem , on the other hand , verbal echoes can be found ( if we had the whole of Sappho's piece there might be more ) , as well as similarities ...
... mind . Yet there are no verbal echoes , nothing that can be easily pinned down . In Catullus ' poem , on the other hand , verbal echoes can be found ( if we had the whole of Sappho's piece there might be more ) , as well as similarities ...
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... mind among half a dozen people , the latter by creating a picture of a mind so various and contradictory that we cannot know it or believe in it . The consciousness of unity may be agreeable , if we can attain it , but it is not ...
... mind among half a dozen people , the latter by creating a picture of a mind so various and contradictory that we cannot know it or believe in it . The consciousness of unity may be agreeable , if we can attain it , but it is not ...
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... mind destitute of the poetical faculty than that tendency which was so common among the writers of the French school to turn images into abstractions , Venus , for example , into Love , Minerva into Wisdom , Mars into War , and Bacchus ...
... mind destitute of the poetical faculty than that tendency which was so common among the writers of the French school to turn images into abstractions , Venus , for example , into Love , Minerva into Wisdom , Mars into War , and Bacchus ...
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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