THREE CLASSICAL POETS Sappho, Catullus, and Juvenal Very Good in Good dust jacket

Harvard University Press, 1982

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Year of publication

1982

Author

Jenkyns, Richard

Publishers

Harvard University Press

Keyword

Poetry Greek Literature Classical Greek & Roman Ancient Greek, Latin Literature Literary Criticism

Cover description

Very Good in Good dust jacket

Binding description

Hardcover ISBN 0674888952

Description

Upper corners slightly bumped. Very light shelfwear to book. Dustjacket spine is sunned and discolored. DJ is price-clipped. ; 0.96 x 9.54 x 6.43 Inches; 254 pages; In a close and sensitive reading of Sappho, Catullus, and Juvenal, Jenkyns delineates the uniqueness of the poet's individual voice in relation to poetic traditions. His book constitutes a challenge to the view that one method will suffice for the interpretation of ancient poetry. He seeks to demonstrate that we can have no substitute for flexible and humane judgment, liberated from critical dogma, if we are to understand the great writers of the past.