In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Wilson-Okamura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > I've tried to avoid saying this, because terms like ambiguity and irony >seem to put the poet at the mercy of the interpreter. I'd hoped, instead, >to cite an ancient critic who compared Virgil's verba to "sand without >bottom."
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