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... original or aesthetically successful result . In contrast , the short poems of Callimachus and Theocritus , limited and ' light ' as they may be , are poetical successes because they effectively transmit an original and contemporary ...
... original or aesthetically successful result . In contrast , the short poems of Callimachus and Theocritus , limited and ' light ' as they may be , are poetical successes because they effectively transmit an original and contemporary ...
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... originals ( such as the elegiac epigrams of Callimachus ) or analogues is very striking . It is not only that ... original in its sensibility and use of convention . But the immediate and direct influence of the New Poets was not ...
... originals ( such as the elegiac epigrams of Callimachus ) or analogues is very striking . It is not only that ... original in its sensibility and use of convention . But the immediate and direct influence of the New Poets was not ...
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... original nature to a wholly new and quasi - divine kind of heroism . The death - resurrection motif could then be given a very concrete and very human form and become the central or crucial element in a psychologically continuous ...
... original nature to a wholly new and quasi - divine kind of heroism . The death - resurrection motif could then be given a very concrete and very human form and become the central or crucial element in a psychologically continuous ...
Contents
The Mystery of the Aeneid I | 1 |
From Homer to Virgil The Obsolescence of Epic | 5 |
The Subjective Style | 41 |
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