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... seen and said that poetry itself cannot live except by coming to terms with its age . To see in this poem only a recovery of specific property — a mere biographical datum - is to miss its major significance : it actually poses the ...
... seen and said that poetry itself cannot live except by coming to terms with its age . To see in this poem only a recovery of specific property — a mere biographical datum - is to miss its major significance : it actually poses the ...
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... seen that his projected epic would require a hero who would at some point in the work reveal the characteristics of Augustus or , more accurately , those of the Roman - Augustan ideal , he was forced to relate this hero to all the ...
... seen that his projected epic would require a hero who would at some point in the work reveal the characteristics of Augustus or , more accurately , those of the Roman - Augustan ideal , he was forced to relate this hero to all the ...
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... seen , proleptic and symbolic , a kind of pre - view of the major crises in 4 and 5 ) Aeneas needed to be reminded by an emissary of Jupiter is , as we have also seen , a sign of weak- ness . As the narrative approaches the really great ...
... seen , proleptic and symbolic , a kind of pre - view of the major crises in 4 and 5 ) Aeneas needed to be reminded by an emissary of Jupiter is , as we have also seen , a sign of weak- ness . As the narrative approaches the really great ...
Contents
The Mystery of the Aeneid I | 1 |
From Homer to Virgil The Obsolescence of Epic | 5 |
The Subjective Style | 41 |
Copyright | |
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