The fragmentary Latin poets
To understand fully the development of Latin poetry, one has to consider not only the prominent figures whose works survive entire but also the writers known to us only in fragments from quotations. This collection of fragments is accompanied by a full commentary.
"To understand fully the development of Latin poetry, one has to consider not only the prominent figures whose works survive entire, but also the writers known to us only in fragments, usually small, from quotations. The fragments of the non-dramatic poets have been collected by…
"Why is Old English poetry so preoccupied with mental actions and perspectives, giving readers access to minds of antagonists as freely as to those of protagonists? Why are characters sometimes called into being for no apparent reason other than to embody a psychological state? …
Mize synthesizes two previously disconnected bodies of theory to advance our understanding of how traditional phraseology makes meaning, as well as illuminate the political and social dimensions of surviving texts, through attention to Old English poets' impulse to explore subje…