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... Silver epic , it is to be expected and to be appreciated on its own terms . THE SILVER EPIC POETS Latin Epic before the Silver Age § 6 §7 Prior to Virgil's Aeneid the verse chronicle - a Greek invention - seems to have been the usual ...
... Silver epic , it is to be expected and to be appreciated on its own terms . THE SILVER EPIC POETS Latin Epic before the Silver Age § 6 §7 Prior to Virgil's Aeneid the verse chronicle - a Greek invention - seems to have been the usual ...
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... bled to death . If so , this might have drawn Milton to use the name Lycidas for his drowned friend Edward King ( Notes and Queries 201 ( 1956 ) 249 ; Dudley ( 1972 ) 111 ) . is so high that the stars rest upon it ( xxii Silver Epic.
... bled to death . If so , this might have drawn Milton to use the name Lycidas for his drowned friend Edward King ( Notes and Queries 201 ( 1956 ) 249 ; Dudley ( 1972 ) 111 ) . is so high that the stars rest upon it ( xxii Silver Epic.
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... Silver epic with its long ekphraseis and accumulation of special effects . It is all so different from Virgil . One might say that the difference between reading Silver epic and reading Virgil is like that between walking in a forest ...
... Silver epic with its long ekphraseis and accumulation of special effects . It is all so different from Virgil . One might say that the difference between reading Silver epic and reading Virgil is like that between walking in a forest ...
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