PERSIUS ON POETIC (IN)DIGESTION

Indigestion

Indigestion and Biliousness

This is eminently a book for the practitioner, and as its subject matter constitutes a very common and constant element of practice, the value and importance of the book, if it does justice to its theme, ought to be correspondingly great. Dr Fothergill, we may state at once, handles his subject in such a way as to entitle his work to authority. He builds upon the most recent researches and view...

)on Paterson and Poetic Autonomy

ntifying Poets Rohert Crawford speculates that 'the poet who constructs an identity I allows that poet to identify with a particular territory is the paradigmatic modern , adding that 'the position of poets in Scotland is typical of this situation' (Crawford 3: 142). One purpose of this chapter is to illustrate the limits of a Scottish literary ism preoccupied by the search for 'poetic selves t...

Politics and Invective in Persius and Juvenal

negative differentiation, that is, through the repeated assertions of what something is not. Satire repeatedly disavows other discourses: it is not poetry, or rhetoric, or philosophy, even if it parasitically sustains itself on them. Imperial satirists drew on a range of rhetorical resources: technical categories from treatises, actual orations, and the practice speeches of the declaimers. At t...

Acute Toxic Indigestion in Cattle.