Critical Essays on Roman Literature: Elegy and LyricJohn Patrick Sullivan |
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... give a damn for all their mutterings . The sun can go on quitting the bed he sank in , but we , when our brief day's light is done , must sleep through a night that will never end . Give me a thousand kisses , followed by a hundred ...
... give a damn for all their mutterings . The sun can go on quitting the bed he sank in , but we , when our brief day's light is done , must sleep through a night that will never end . Give me a thousand kisses , followed by a hundred ...
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... give us any very substantial help in reconstructing for the poet a hypo- thetical ' life ' , upon the basis of which we might then arbitarily interpret the elegies . The biographical approach to Latin elegy ignores the truth that this ...
... give us any very substantial help in reconstructing for the poet a hypo- thetical ' life ' , upon the basis of which we might then arbitarily interpret the elegies . The biographical approach to Latin elegy ignores the truth that this ...
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... give the ode authenticity : though as artificial in conception as any in Horace , it alludes , however obliquely , to real life and real emotion , which the Europa ode does not . And though the poem may contain reminis- cences of ...
... give the ode authenticity : though as artificial in conception as any in Horace , it alludes , however obliquely , to real life and real emotion , which the Europa ode does not . And though the poem may contain reminis- cences of ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION J P Sullivan Lincoln College page I | 13 |
DOCTE CATULLE K F Quinn University of | 31 |
tersus atque eleGANS J P Elder | 65 |
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