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... poets Lucan , Valerius Flaccus , Silius Italicus and Statius . This is a body of poetry that tends to be familiar only to specialists , which is a pity , for it has its merits . The literature of the period between the death of Augustus ...
... poets Lucan , Valerius Flaccus , Silius Italicus and Statius . This is a body of poetry that tends to be familiar only to specialists , which is a pity , for it has its merits . The literature of the period between the death of Augustus ...
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... poetry of Eliot and Pound with its obscurities and ambiguities , its harshness and atonal qualities , was a reaction against the smooth harmonies and ceremoniousness of much Victorian versification . New ways of exploring experience and ...
... poetry of Eliot and Pound with its obscurities and ambiguities , its harshness and atonal qualities , was a reaction against the smooth harmonies and ceremoniousness of much Victorian versification . New ways of exploring experience and ...
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... poets . That these were suitable subjects for hexameter verse was also indicated by the traditions of didactic poetry : in the Hellenistic period , for example , - Aratus ' Phaenomena ( translated into Latin more than once xxviii.
... poets . That these were suitable subjects for hexameter verse was also indicated by the traditions of didactic poetry : in the Hellenistic period , for example , - Aratus ' Phaenomena ( translated into Latin more than once xxviii.
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