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... style ? The answer is surely that the degree of influence is largely due to the attention given to the translation of epic . Translation provided the Augustans with a style which allowed them to scatter hints and echoes of the past ...
... style ? The answer is surely that the degree of influence is largely due to the attention given to the translation of epic . Translation provided the Augustans with a style which allowed them to scatter hints and echoes of the past ...
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... style comes to the fore . The part that translation played in the develop- ment of the Augustan poetic style is paralleled , in Pope's case , by the way in which the style seems to take pos- session of the epic , giving it a distinctly ...
... style comes to the fore . The part that translation played in the develop- ment of the Augustan poetic style is paralleled , in Pope's case , by the way in which the style seems to take pos- session of the epic , giving it a distinctly ...
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... style and his elabor- ation of various examples of " sinking " in poetry , is the unjustified assumption that such matters can be controlled . While it may be true that certain styles are appropriate to certain kinds of poetry , many ...
... style and his elabor- ation of various examples of " sinking " in poetry , is the unjustified assumption that such matters can be controlled . While it may be true that certain styles are appropriate to certain kinds of poetry , many ...
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