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Figures of Thought in Roman Poetry (Hardcover)
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Figures of Thought in Roman Poetry (Hardcover)
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It has long been assumed that the language of Roman poetry was
constructed under the dictates of elaborately defined rules of
rhetoric, and its content determined according to the system of
comparable classifications called invention. This belief has
persisted in spite of the difficulty of fitting the works of
Catullus, Horace, Virgil, Propertius, and Tibullus into such a
rigid scheme. In this book Gordon Williams demonstrates that,
although Ovid and his successors did indeed assimilate their poetry
to the rhetorical rules devised for prose, the earlier poets
employed a quite different method. Williams sees this method as
falling into either a metaphorical or metonymic mode, both of which
permitted the poet "to say one thing and mean another." Delicate
and often startling transitions of thought could be grasped-though
not necessarily on first reading-by readers "assumed by the poet to
have a special access to the poet's process of thought." This
access presupposed similarities of "education, social position, and
sympathetic understanding." Through close analyses of many poems,
Williams shows how poets in the fifty years before Horace's death
exploited metaphor, metonymy, and a third device that he calls
thematic anticipation to evoke subtle associations of thought. In
doing so he elucidates problems of Latin poems that have been
generally misunderstood almost since they day they were written.
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