Critical Essays on Roman Literature: Elegy and LyricJohn Patrick Sullivan |
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... live literary commerce . Most of us find regrettably that the very notion of close compari- son with modern literary works is a suspicious one , for it seems to entail sciolism somewhere , a charge we are wary of incurring , even though ...
... live literary commerce . Most of us find regrettably that the very notion of close compari- son with modern literary works is a suspicious one , for it seems to entail sciolism somewhere , a charge we are wary of incurring , even though ...
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... live over again , he did not expect he would find time even then to read ' the lyric poets'.10 This was obviously not the attitude of Augustus ( to say nothing of Maecenas ) to Horace's ' lyric ' poetry . For this a lot of the credit ...
... live over again , he did not expect he would find time even then to read ' the lyric poets'.10 This was obviously not the attitude of Augustus ( to say nothing of Maecenas ) to Horace's ' lyric ' poetry . For this a lot of the credit ...
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... live and move within Roman terms ' , he declares . Then another abrupt shift . The countryside is now charged with having taken Nemesis away from the City , where she ought to be because there Tibullus could perhaps have her : Haud ...
... live and move within Roman terms ' , he declares . Then another abrupt shift . The countryside is now charged with having taken Nemesis away from the City , where she ought to be because there Tibullus could perhaps have her : Haud ...
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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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