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Avian Ways: Influence and Innovation in Lucretius and Vergil
- L'Esprit Créateur
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 49, Number 4, Winter 2009
- pp. 59-69
- 10.1353/esp.0.0198
- Article
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Abstract
Via a discussion of the paronomasia linking the Latin words for “pathless” and “bird,” this essay discusses Vergil’s allusions to Lucretius in Aeneid 7. The extract leads me to reconsider Lucretius’ passage on the clinamen, misread by Harold Bloom, and to comment on Riffaterre’s explanation of literary influence.
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