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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Side 115
... picture . Ariadne and Iacchus are merely ' shapes ' , and shapes of people who lived a very long time ago ... picture . But at line 251 he reminds us that he has not really been so inattentive : ' at parte ex alia florens volitabat ...
... picture . Ariadne and Iacchus are merely ' shapes ' , and shapes of people who lived a very long time ago ... picture . But at line 251 he reminds us that he has not really been so inattentive : ' at parte ex alia florens volitabat ...
Side 175
... picture ac- quires a force that we might be tempted to call symbolic , were this not too portentous and systematic a word for Juvenal's method . Per- sicus is told not to expect the displays of dancing girls when he comes to dine ; such ...
... picture ac- quires a force that we might be tempted to call symbolic , were this not too portentous and systematic a word for Juvenal's method . Per- sicus is told not to expect the displays of dancing girls when he comes to dine ; such ...
Side 214
... picture of the greedy brute stuffing himself with coin and land actually makes us see his gormandising more physically ; the odd resemblance between gaping purse and gaping man presents both of them as objects for us to look at ...
... picture of the greedy brute stuffing himself with coin and land actually makes us see his gormandising more physically ; the odd resemblance between gaping purse and gaping man presents both of them as objects for us to look at ...
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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