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Page xi
... poetry of the Age illustrated by other extant works of art Direction given to national sentiment by Augustus III . Influence of Patronage on the Augustan Poetry Poetry employed in the interest of the Government Patrons of literature ...
... poetry of the Age illustrated by other extant works of art Direction given to national sentiment by Augustus III . Influence of Patronage on the Augustan Poetry Poetry employed in the interest of the Government Patrons of literature ...
Page xii
... poetry Characteristics of the Alexandrine poets Their treatment of mythological subjects Scientific and learned character of their poetry Their treatment of the passion of love . Their treatment of external Nature Pictorial art of the ...
... poetry Characteristics of the Alexandrine poets Their treatment of mythological subjects Scientific and learned character of their poetry Their treatment of the passion of love . Their treatment of external Nature Pictorial art of the ...
Page xv
... poetry adopted by Virgil . What forms of poetry available for Virgil's purpose ? Character of didactic poetry among the Greeks New type of didactic poetry introduced by Virgil III . National interest and substance of the Poem Italian ...
... poetry adopted by Virgil . What forms of poetry available for Virgil's purpose ? Character of didactic poetry among the Greeks New type of didactic poetry introduced by Virgil III . National interest and substance of the Poem Italian ...
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... poets belonging to that age whose writings have reached modern times - Virgil , Horace , Ti- bullus , Propertius , and Ovid — all were born , and ... poetry . Besides VOL . I. B the writers just mentioned , several others were recog- nised.
... poets belonging to that age whose writings have reached modern times - Virgil , Horace , Ti- bullus , Propertius , and Ovid — all were born , and ... poetry . Besides VOL . I. B the writers just mentioned , several others were recog- nised.
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... poetry was cultivated by the younger generation in the years immediately preceding the battle of Pharsalia , that so few of the poets eminent in that generation lived on into the new era . The insig- nificant name of Helvius Cinna is ...
... poetry was cultivated by the younger generation in the years immediately preceding the battle of Pharsalia , that so few of the poets eminent in that generation lived on into the new era . The insig- nificant name of Helvius Cinna is ...
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