Words and the Poet

by R.O.A.M. Lyne

Book Overview

Throughout his vast literary output, to a surprising extent, Vergil avoided artifacts of poetic diction like archaism and grecism, preferring instead ordinary language that grew from the common stock of the Latin tongue such as colloquialisms and prosaisms. This remarkably coherent and readable study identifies and categorizes such diction in Vergil's writings showing further how such comparatively unpromising material was converted by the poet's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198152612
• ISBN13: 9780198152613
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"