Under Clouds of Poesy: Poetry and Truth in French and English Reworkings of the Aeneid, 1160-1513 |
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Page 147
... specific details of Antenor's bargaining session with the Greeks . If Benoît seems naive to us in asserting the historicity of Dares and Dictys , the naivete is more that of the epoch in which he lived than of the specific author ...
... specific details of Antenor's bargaining session with the Greeks . If Benoît seems naive to us in asserting the historicity of Dares and Dictys , the naivete is more that of the epoch in which he lived than of the specific author ...
Page 158
... specific figures are always given in the treatment of the time sequence of historical events . When at the end of the Aeneas section the writer catalogues the Italian kings up to Romulus , he not only lists them more numerously than is ...
... specific figures are always given in the treatment of the time sequence of historical events . When at the end of the Aeneas section the writer catalogues the Italian kings up to Romulus , he not only lists them more numerously than is ...
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... specific variety of fidelity he owes his original , and acknowledges that of Virgil's two strong points , his eloquens and his sentens , one is likely at times to be weakened in the translation : To follow alanerly Virgilis wordis , I ...
... specific variety of fidelity he owes his original , and acknowledges that of Virgil's two strong points , his eloquens and his sentens , one is likely at times to be weakened in the translation : To follow alanerly Virgilis wordis , I ...
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