I love topics like that--works for Davies' Orchestra too. So does "why
might this poem be hard to finish?" (A question of tone vs. topic,
maybe.) Anne.
On Apr 7, 2010, at 5:36 PM, Colin Burrow wrote:
> How about 'Write me the ending (not like Chapman's)'?
>
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> For undergraduates, I think the surest road is Andrew's question about
> ecphrasis: it's obvious when it occurs, but not obvious why it's
> there.
>
> Perhaps another way of framing Andrew's question about delay: was the
> poem cut short by accident (e.g., lost pages, the author's death) or
> art?
>
> Epyllion, which Tom mentions, is the subject I'd most like to READ an
> essay about. To my knowledge there's no Renaissance theory of it, only
> examples. As soon as you say that, of course, someone starts to give
> you a lecture on Hellenistic aesthetics. But what is pretty common
> knowledge today wasn't common knowledge then. What in his model,
> Musaeus, did Marlowe think it was important to imitate? Tasso, I see,
> did a translation of Musaeus; did he also write a preface? mention it
> in his letters?
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