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Poetic Imagery in Homer and Virgil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

A. M. Ashley
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Extract

It is the special function of the poet to create beauty. Loveliness may appear in many thousand forms, but among these one of the most satisfying is the ‘pen-picture’, the Homeric or Virgilian simile, complete and perfect in three or four lines. Pope speaks of

‘The Simile that solitary shines

In the dry desert of a thousand lines.’

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Research Article
Information
Greece & Rome , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , October 1932 , pp. 21 - 28
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1932

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References

page 21 note 1 I am using for Homer the prose translation of Lang, Leaf, and Myers; and for Virgil the metrical version of Rhoades.