The Geography of the Orphic Argonautica

Classical Quarterly 25 (3-4):172-183 (1931)
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The author of the Orphic Argonautica was, except by personal election, no poet. He was, however, a very devout reader of poetry and, had he only been Irradiated by the same Celestial Light, might well have been a Milton, for he went to work in very much the same way. Books, and not personal experience, were his guides. His mind was stored with the lines and phrases of other poets; he read his authors attentively: but he did not always understand them, and he lacked the Miltonic art of giving borrowed gems new value from their setting.

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Iliupersides.W. F. J. Knight - 1932 - Classical Quarterly 26 (3-4):178-189.

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