Beobachtungen über Vers und Gedankengang bei Lukrez. - BÜCHNER, K.,

KORTE INHOUD

?Büchner?s essay is interesting and to my mind important. It is a study of the verse-structure of the ?De Rerum Natura? in relation to the sentence and more particularly to the thought of Lucretius. The arguments are clearly stated and the conclusions, if accepted, throw light on several much-discussed problems. The first chapter deals in the wider sense with the influence of though on structure. We are apt to expect from Lucretius a strict logical sequence, which we do not always find. In many places Lucretius is dominated by a thought remaining in his mind, to which he refers back over a long intervening period (?), or in anticipation by an idea which he has not yet made explicit (?). Büchner?s inferences are that some passages bracketed by editors as interrupting the sense may be retained, that lacunae have been assumed unnecessarily, and that obscure passages are thus submitted to close analysis; the results are nearly always convincing. (?) Chapters ii and iii are concerned with smaller stylistic questio... Lees verder...

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