Critical Essays on Roman Literature: Elegy and LyricJohn Patrick Sullivan |
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... whole seem hardly possible . The conviction is inescapable that to talk of the whole corpus as ' the work of a lyric poet ' , as E. A. Havelock accustomed a generation of students to talk , involves a use of the term ' lyric ' too loose ...
... whole seem hardly possible . The conviction is inescapable that to talk of the whole corpus as ' the work of a lyric poet ' , as E. A. Havelock accustomed a generation of students to talk , involves a use of the term ' lyric ' too loose ...
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... whole does not come off . There are weak spots - chiefly , I think , lines 11 , 13 and 14 , whose puerility does little credit to Corinna's intelligence , though in themselves they are svelte and musical . Ovid's critics , whatever else ...
... whole does not come off . There are weak spots - chiefly , I think , lines 11 , 13 and 14 , whose puerility does little credit to Corinna's intelligence , though in themselves they are svelte and musical . Ovid's critics , whatever else ...
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... whole , tends to be neglected . This is the point at which Horace shows his ori- ginality , his freedom from a prevailing literary fashion of the time — in a subtler appreciation of a poem's unity , a dislike of expansion and too ...
... whole , tends to be neglected . This is the point at which Horace shows his ori- ginality , his freedom from a prevailing literary fashion of the time — in a subtler appreciation of a poem's unity , a dislike of expansion and too ...
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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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