Classical Genres and English PoetryCroom Helm, 1988 - 235 sider Straightforward explanation, with plentiful use of examples, of the genres in classical poetry and their influence on modern poets. The poets discussed range from the Romans to Yeats and Auden. |
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Side xiv
... speeches ( e.g. prayers , laments , exhortations , praise , blame , persuasion , orders , messages ) could be adjusted to the occasional demands of the plot . For that reason , the Iliad and Odyssey became the literary Bible of the ...
... speeches ( e.g. prayers , laments , exhortations , praise , blame , persuasion , orders , messages ) could be adjusted to the occasional demands of the plot . For that reason , the Iliad and Odyssey became the literary Bible of the ...
Side xviii
... speech . That is the revolution which Wordsworth announced in his prefaces . ' Do the generic affinities alone account for the similarities ? The priamel provides a particularly interesting case , for only within recent years has it ...
... speech . That is the revolution which Wordsworth announced in his prefaces . ' Do the generic affinities alone account for the similarities ? The priamel provides a particularly interesting case , for only within recent years has it ...
Side 119
... speech takes place in a setting of death and lamentation . Secondly , the message - enjoying what is at hand while one is able — is the burden of all carpe - diem poetry and is essentially consolatory . Finally , the speech contains a ...
... speech takes place in a setting of death and lamentation . Secondly , the message - enjoying what is at hand while one is able — is the burden of all carpe - diem poetry and is essentially consolatory . Finally , the speech contains a ...
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A.E. Housman Achilles Amores Antistrophe Apollo Auden Augustus battle beauty beginning brief Brueghel Callimachus carpe-diem poems Catullus celebrate Chryses Classical climactic term consolatory contrast Daphnis death Deinomenes depicted ekphrasis elegy emphasises encomia English epic epigram Ergoteles eulogy example fame foil genre goddess gods Graeco-Roman Greek grief Hellenistic Heracles Hieron Homer Horace Horace's Horatian human hymn hymnal hypomnesis J.V. Cunningham lament and consolation Latin lines literary literature Lycidas lyre manly consolation Martial Marvell's Menander Menander Rhetor motif Muse nunc Odes Ovid Oxford pastoral Persius Pindar poet poet's portrays praise prayer priamel Propertius recusatio rejects Renaissance request Roman Sappho satire scene shield sing song Sonnet speech stanza style subgenre themes Theocritus thou tibi Tibullus topics University Press Vergil verse victory W.B. Yeats W.H. Auden word writing Yeats Yeats's Yvor Winters Zeus γὰρ δὲ καὶ μὲν