Simple Tibullus and the ruse of style. [From: Yale French Studies, No. 45, Language as Action, 1970].

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p. 21-32. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Author's name underlined on cover, 5 very small notes, otherwise good and clean. - From the text: Of the three surviving elegists of the Roman Augustan age, Tibullus is little read, less appreciated. Propertius fascinates by his intensity, his gnarled propulsion of idea which forces careful attention to the process as well as the wholeness of a poem. Ovid s facile warmth and smooth irony win ready admirers. With Tibullus praise was not always so faint. A younger contemporary of Virgil (he died the same year, 19 B. C.), he is mentioned twice with affectionate concern by Horace whereas Propertius receives but a passing jibe. Ovid in the Amores elegizes his death and on more than one subsequent occasion shows a preference for Tibullus, a judgment that Quintilian forthrightly echoes two generations later. Modem criticism, more patronizing than productive, lauds his ease and clarity of diction which serves, we are told, as suitable vehicle for a mind which delicately, if somewhat hazily, balances elegiac and pastoral subjects. But was this praiser of the past, sufferer of the moment, whose chief gods were Pax and Spes (a calm present, a stable future), as aloof from immediate concerns as he is usually envisioned? Would escape be such a necessary desire to one who had not felt, and therefore as a poet needed to expound, life s bitter side? - Wikipedia: Michael Courtney Jenkins Putnam (born September 20, 1933) is an American classicist specializing in Latin literature, but has also studied literature written in many other languages. Putnam has been particularly influential in his publications concerning Virgil s Aeneid . Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

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Titel

Simple Tibullus and the ruse of style. [From: Yale French Studies, No. 45, Language as Action, 1970].

Verlag

New Haven (CT): Yale University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

1970

Sprache

Englisch

Einband

Reprint, stapled.

Zustand

Gut

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