Critical Essays on Roman Literature: Elegy and LyricJohn Patrick Sullivan |
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... seem much more accessible to contemporary understanding and therefore to criticism . The im- portance of this sort of literature , and of satire , seems adequately vouched for by Quintilian's proud verdicts - elegia quoque Graecos ...
... seem much more accessible to contemporary understanding and therefore to criticism . The im- portance of this sort of literature , and of satire , seems adequately vouched for by Quintilian's proud verdicts - elegia quoque Graecos ...
Page 104
... seems likely , Propertius be the ' Callimachus ' of Epist . 2.2.100 . Indignos is difficult to translate . ' Undeserving locks ' is fairly meaningless . The general sense is : ' Elegy did not deserve to suffer the fate of Tibullus ...
... seems likely , Propertius be the ' Callimachus ' of Epist . 2.2.100 . Indignos is difficult to translate . ' Undeserving locks ' is fairly meaningless . The general sense is : ' Elegy did not deserve to suffer the fate of Tibullus ...
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... seems spontaneous and directly inspired by personal feeling and experience , although it is actually no less conventional in the ideas it contains and no less influenced by the traditional material of erotic commonplace . A dramatic ...
... seems spontaneous and directly inspired by personal feeling and experience , although it is actually no less conventional in the ideas it contains and no less influenced by the traditional material of erotic commonplace . A dramatic ...
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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