Critical Essays on Roman Literature: Elegy and LyricJohn Patrick Sullivan |
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... Horace's Epistle we learn more about Tibullus , and some- thing , too , about Horace . Tibullus , says Horace , has everything one could ask for : the gift of criticism , the gift of poetry , fame , beauty , wealth , and the art of ...
... Horace's Epistle we learn more about Tibullus , and some- thing , too , about Horace . Tibullus , says Horace , has everything one could ask for : the gift of criticism , the gift of poetry , fame , beauty , wealth , and the art of ...
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... Horace's sombre musings on the audacity of man go far beyond anything which the occasion justifies . O matre pulchra ( 1.16 ) is another frigid attempt at a minor genre , this time the palinode . When Horace wrote such poems he was not ...
... Horace's sombre musings on the audacity of man go far beyond anything which the occasion justifies . O matre pulchra ( 1.16 ) is another frigid attempt at a minor genre , this time the palinode . When Horace wrote such poems he was not ...
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... Horace evokes with particular effect the wind beating on the woods of his native Venusia . Such a touch helps to give the ode authenticity : though as artificial in ... Horace's political poetry we ROMANAE FIDICEN LYRAE : THE ODES OF HORACE.
... Horace evokes with particular effect the wind beating on the woods of his native Venusia . Such a touch helps to give the ode authenticity : though as artificial in ... Horace's political poetry we ROMANAE FIDICEN LYRAE : THE ODES OF HORACE.
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INTRODUCTION J P Sullivan Lincoln College page I | 13 |
DOCTE CATULLE K F Quinn University of 31 | 31 |
Tersus atque elEGANS J P Elder | 65 |
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