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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... verse that is self - consciously mar- vellous . Indeed the sheer wonder of art and technical brilliance is , as we shall discover , one of his largest themes . Like so much of Greek mythology , the story of Peleus and Thetis could be ...
... verse that is self - consciously mar- vellous . Indeed the sheer wonder of art and technical brilliance is , as we shall discover , one of his largest themes . Like so much of Greek mythology , the story of Peleus and Thetis could be ...
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... Verse to the world in 1912 , he explained that he had left out satire altogether . For the omission of Horace's Satires and Epistles he evidently felt some twinge of regret : ' By their large temper and by their complete freedom from ...
... Verse to the world in 1912 , he explained that he had left out satire altogether . For the omission of Horace's Satires and Epistles he evidently felt some twinge of regret : ' By their large temper and by their complete freedom from ...
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... verse form . Here is a type of rhetoric which so far from being inimical to verse is possible in verse alone . When , a few lines later ( 209f . ) , he contemplates the creation with the words Mark how it mounts , to Man's imperial race ...
... verse form . Here is a type of rhetoric which so far from being inimical to verse is possible in verse alone . When , a few lines later ( 209f . ) , he contemplates the creation with the words Mark how it mounts , to Man's imperial race ...
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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