CRITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE CAESURA IN HORATIAN ALCAICS

• Autores: John Talbot
• Localización: Classical journal, ISSN 0009-8353, Vol. 103, Nº 1, 2007, págs. 41-62
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Scholars have neglected the critical implications of the Horatian Alcaic caesura, whose very regularity creates a set of metrical expectations the poet may variously satisfy, frustrate and play upon for expressive effects. Dozens of instances are adduced, and grouped under five heads: transgression, emphasis, antithesis, periodical structure and coordination.