1st Edition
Latin Explorations (Routledge Revivals) Critical Studies in Roman Literature
By Kenneth Quinn
Copyright 1963
294 Pages
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Routledge
294 Pages
by
Routledge
294 Pages
by
Routledge
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Latin Explorations , first published in 1963, offers a fresh approach to Roman poetry from Catullus to Ovid. Traditionally, the period is divided for specialist studies – Lyric, Epic and Elegy. In each of them, techniques of interpretation prevail, isolated from contemporary ideas about poetry and dominated by barriers between ‘textual’, ‘exegetical’ and ‘aesthetic’ criticism.
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Preface; Abbreviations 1. Horace’s Spring Odes 2. Vigil’s Tragic Queen 3. Emergence of a Form: The Latin Short Poem 4. Dramatic Monologue in the Odes of Horace 5. Tacitus’ Narrative Technique 6. Propertius, Horace, and the Poet’s Role 7. Propertius and the Poetry of the Intellect 8. The Tempo of Virgilian Epic 9. Persistence of a Theme: The Proempticon; List of Poems and Passages Discussed; Index
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Kenneth Quinn
