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... spring poem in which Horace had invited Virgil to a feast . And perhaps the spring season in which Horace's poem is set is not without significance , given , as noted below , West's self - identification with the spring a theme which in ...
... spring poem in which Horace had invited Virgil to a feast . And perhaps the spring season in which Horace's poem is set is not without significance , given , as noted below , West's self - identification with the spring a theme which in ...
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... Spring ( West ? ) is at last smiling . And if the possible identifica- tion of West as Spring is hinted at here , his link with Favonius , the West wind ( already evident in the poem's headnote ) is invoked in lines 25-28 , which could ...
... Spring ( West ? ) is at last smiling . And if the possible identifica- tion of West as Spring is hinted at here , his link with Favonius , the West wind ( already evident in the poem's headnote ) is invoked in lines 25-28 , which could ...
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... spring . For if West's cognomen , as it were , takes the reader back to the first century BC , so his praenomen ( Favonius ) returns us to that eighteenth - century pun by which West had identified himself to the Quadruple Alliance ...
... spring . For if West's cognomen , as it were , takes the reader back to the first century BC , so his praenomen ( Favonius ) returns us to that eighteenth - century pun by which West had identified himself to the Quadruple Alliance ...
Contents
Grays playexercise at Eton | 13 |
Grays Luna Habitabilis | 35 |
from epithalamium to epic | 51 |
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