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Placing Sorrow
In this full-length critical study of a richly varied poetic convention, Ellen Lambert aims to define the particular literary experience common to those funeral laments we call pastoral elegies. She suggests that what distinguishes the pastoral elegist's vision of death from that of other funeral elegists is a setting rather than a doctrine: the special landscape in which he places his sorrow. The pastoral elegist brings to death the consolations of a sunlit world: intensification, clarification, simplification. Theocritus's first Idyll and the fifth Vergilian Eclogue are studied in detail in the opening chapters, which provide the groundwork for discussions later in the book of diverse Rena...
In Mist Apparelled
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The Living Universe
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Skopas of Paros
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Calcidius on Demons
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Varia
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The Homeric Epics
This book presents a broad but concise view of the basic problems of the Homeric Epics as seen by modern scholars. It looks at the history of Homeric scholarship from the Alexandrian period and presents a lucid analysis of the main features of the poem. The copious notes and up-to-date bibliography make it a basic work for the student of Greek literature and an invaluable companion-guide for all lovers of Homer's epics.
