An elegist's career: from Cynthia to Cornelia
Virgil created the ideal poetic career, an upwards progression within the range of hexameter poetry, pastoral to didactic to epic. He marked this movement in ways obvious and less obvious: he gets up from the shepherd's sitting position at the close of the Eclogues; at the end of the second Geo...
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Cambridge University Press
2010
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