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... problem of poetry as avoided it . They had rejected continuous epic for quite sound reasons , but their discontinuous long poems and their ' short epics ' had really evacuated both myth and narrative from poetry . By their brevity ...
... problem of poetry as avoided it . They had rejected continuous epic for quite sound reasons , but their discontinuous long poems and their ' short epics ' had really evacuated both myth and narrative from poetry . By their brevity ...
Page 212
... problem all over again . But here we are no longer in a world of pure fairy - tale : there are to be sure mysterious ... problem of resurrection is at bottom a moral problem . We must not be deceived by Virgil's evident sympathy : here ...
... problem all over again . But here we are no longer in a world of pure fairy - tale : there are to be sure mysterious ... problem of resurrection is at bottom a moral problem . We must not be deceived by Virgil's evident sympathy : here ...
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... problem of the epic after Book 10 is the problem of Turnus ' motivation : he must , as Virgil sees it , be brought to face Aeneas voluntarily and even despite the aid of Juno and ( later ) Juturna . For he is meant to be both furiosus ...
... problem of the epic after Book 10 is the problem of Turnus ' motivation : he must , as Virgil sees it , be brought to face Aeneas voluntarily and even despite the aid of Juno and ( later ) Juturna . For he is meant to be both furiosus ...
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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