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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... writing verse in his own time and cir- cumstances . He is for ever indicating to us that he is what we would now call a secondary writer ; he is constantly establishing and adjust- ing his own position in relation to his great ...
... writing verse in his own time and cir- cumstances . He is for ever indicating to us that he is what we would now call a secondary writer ; he is constantly establishing and adjust- ing his own position in relation to his great ...
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Sappho, Catullus and Juvenal Richard Jenkyns. bility of writing didactic poetry grander and yet subtler than the ... writers ( if that epithet may be used without disparagement ) ; the sophisticated magnificence of the Aeneid is a tour de ...
Sappho, Catullus and Juvenal Richard Jenkyns. bility of writing didactic poetry grander and yet subtler than the ... writers ( if that epithet may be used without disparagement ) ; the sophisticated magnificence of the Aeneid is a tour de ...
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... writers work- ing in the first half of the second century A.D. both chose to be nobly ignoble ; both realised their ... writing . Swift's Modest Proposal is rightly praised for ' its anger and its compassion ' , 24 but the tone is one ...
... writers work- ing in the first half of the second century A.D. both chose to be nobly ignoble ; both realised their ... writing . Swift's Modest Proposal is rightly praised for ' its anger and its compassion ' , 24 but the tone is one ...
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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