The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Horace and the Elegiac PoetsBiblo & Tannen Publishers, 1892 - 362 páginas |
Contenido
CHAPTER I | 1 |
CHAPTER II | 28 |
Fescennine verses PAGE | 34 |
No public recognition of Poetry | 40 |
Little known of him from external sources | 45 |
FROM LIVIUS ANDRONICUS TO LUCILIUS | 47 |
Ancient testimonies | 51 |
Epic poem 55 | 55 |
TERENCE AND THE COMIC POETS SUBSEQUENT | 204 |
EARLY ROMAN SATIRE C LUCILIUS DIED 102 B C | 222 |
Critical epoch at which Lucilius appeared | 229 |
Impression of the authors personality | 236 |
Intellectual peculiarities | 243 |
Grounds of his popularity | 249 |
Popular and national character of their works | 256 |
Familiar letters | 262 |
CHAPTER IV | 62 |
Historical importance of his age | 68 |
Intimacy with Scipio | 74 |
Affinity to Empedocles | 76 |
Saturae | 81 |
CHAPTER XII | 85 |
Annals | 88 |
Roman character of the work | 94 |
Description and imagery | 100 |
Chief literary characteristics of Ennius | 106 |
Moral emotion | 112 |
Disparaging criticism of Niebuhr | 118 |
Power of scientific reasoning observation and expression | 124 |
Nearer approach to the spirit of Euripides than of Sophocles | 125 |
Causes of its decline | 131 |
Accius notices of his life | 143 |
Conclusion as to character of Roman Tragedy | 150 |
Life of the lower and middle classes represented in his plays | 163 |
Dramas adaptations of outward conditions of Athenian New Comedy | 169 |
Favourite plots of his plays | 178 |
CHAPTER X | 269 |
Effects of the political unsettlement on the contemplative life | 275 |
Prevalence at Rome in the last age of the Republic | 358 |
Superstition | 364 |
Ambition | 374 |
His literary power as a moralist | 381 |
Intensity of feeling pervading the argument | 388 |
Imaginative suggestiveness and creativeness | 394 |
Energy of movement in his descriptions | 400 |
Modern interest of his poem | 406 |
Principle of their arrangement | 412 |
Influences of his native district | 419 |
Poems written between 61 and 57 B C | 425 |
Poems written between 56 and 54 B C | 433 |
His short satirical pieces | 444 |
Other poems expressive of personal feeling | 450 |
His longer and more purely artistic pieces | 456 |
The Peleus and Thetis | 462 |
The longer elegiac poems | 469 |
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