Critical Essays on Roman Literature: Elegy and LyricJohn Patrick Sullivan |
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... experience . Explicit statements of time , place , person , and circumstance have meaning not as references to a private sphere of the poet's own experience , into which the reader is only occasionally and , as it were , by chance ...
... experience . Explicit statements of time , place , person , and circumstance have meaning not as references to a private sphere of the poet's own experience , into which the reader is only occasionally and , as it were , by chance ...
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... experience . Consequently , when Propertius returns from the example to his own experience it is with clear emphasis on its unique and personal character : in me tardus Amor non ullas cogitat artis , nec meminit notas , ut prius , ire ...
... experience . Consequently , when Propertius returns from the example to his own experience it is with clear emphasis on its unique and personal character : in me tardus Amor non ullas cogitat artis , nec meminit notas , ut prius , ire ...
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... experience of the individual gained , through the relation to myth , a significance that for the Roman reader it did not have in its own right . The merely per- sonal , sporadic , unrelated had neither importance nor serious interest ...
... experience of the individual gained , through the relation to myth , a significance that for the Roman reader it did not have in its own right . The merely per- sonal , sporadic , unrelated had neither importance nor serious interest ...
Contents
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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