Unlike Pliny or the
epigrammatists, the Erotes presents specific viewing epiphanies that are constrained or limited by the access the temple setting allows.
Situational realism is somewhat damaged by Foley's weighted inverse analogizing of the activities of the foursome with what one chapter, descriptive of Derry, calls "the widely used sobriquet 'Maiden City.'" Early on, the "spectre of the sluggish matron" becomes in Marie the "radiance of the mettlesome maid"; Helen has, pointedly, kept her maiden name; ever the
epigrammatist, Foley tells us that "Ignominy is the most faithful handmaiden of Eros." While this is contrived irony, the true irony of the novel concerns the eventual lapse of libertinage into personal insecurities and anxieties over foreplay, impotence and venereal disease.
Professional
epigrammatist Ashleigh Brilliant routinely threatens legal action when his coffee mug and refrigerator magnet quips are appropriated without consent, credit or compensation.
The phrase "more piquantly gratified" seems ambiguous, as though the more curious or the more unconventional, the more satisfying the ending (from the perspective of the
epigrammatist).
Is the well-known Martial, The
Epigrammatist: while living, Give him the fame thou wouldst be giving: So shall he hear, and feel, and know it- Post-obits rarely reach a poet.
Martial, the Roman
epigrammatist (first century ad) uses it metaphorically for someone who has stolen his lines, and the use of the word for 'plagiarism, plagiarist' becomes common from the Renaissance.
"He's known as an
epigrammatist," adds Northam, "but he also has great emotional truth.
Nothing remains of the writings of the stoic philosopher Cleanthes except his `Hymn to Zeus', which was known in the Renaissance, and was indeed used to show how compatible stoicism was with Christianity.(7) Simonides of Ceos was a lyric poet and
epigrammatist renowned for his opportunism and cupidity.
physician, teacher, scientist, poet, essayist, novelist, biographer, critic, lecturer,
epigrammatist. Holmes was a descendant of <IR> ANNE BRADSTREET </IR> .
