Critical Essays on Roman Literature: Elegy and LyricJohn Patrick Sullivan |
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... experience . Propertius very frequently presents an example as parallel to his own situation , and thus shows that his private experience is consonant with or justified by universal human experience . This is a technique that he follows ...
... experience . Propertius very frequently presents an example as parallel to his own situation , and thus shows that his private experience is consonant with or justified by universal human experience . This is a technique that he follows ...
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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 ...
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... experience . To modern taste the individual style of Propertius appeals as giving proof of sincere and genuine feeling . The modern reader has been trained to find in the particu- lar , in the individual and the unique , an intrinsic ...
... experience . To modern taste the individual style of Propertius appeals as giving proof of sincere and genuine feeling . The modern reader has been trained to find in the particu- lar , in the individual and the unique , an intrinsic ...
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INTRODUCTION J P Sullivan Lincoln College page | 1 |
ME EX VERSICULIS MEIS PARUM PUDICUM | 15 |
DOCTE CATULLE K F Quinn University of | 31 |
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