This paper concerns a Latin poem composed by Arthur Rimbaud in 1869, which presents a prosopopoeia of King Jugurtha and his imaginary speech addressed to a distant newborn descendant. The poem is full of reminiscences of the classical models of Latin hexametric poetry. The aim of the article is to demonstrate that Rimbaud's poetic memory is not just about single lexical and metric units, but also about wider poetic contexts. In particular, it recognizes two hypotexts of Jugurtha in Catull. 64 and in Virgil’s fourth eclogue, two poems that are connected by the topic of the predestined child.
Memorie catulliane e virgiliane nel "Giugurta" di Arthur Rimbaud
ELISA ROMANO
2019-01-01
Abstract
This paper concerns a Latin poem composed by Arthur Rimbaud in 1869, which presents a prosopopoeia of King Jugurtha and his imaginary speech addressed to a distant newborn descendant. The poem is full of reminiscences of the classical models of Latin hexametric poetry. The aim of the article is to demonstrate that Rimbaud's poetic memory is not just about single lexical and metric units, but also about wider poetic contexts. In particular, it recognizes two hypotexts of Jugurtha in Catull. 64 and in Virgil’s fourth eclogue, two poems that are connected by the topic of the predestined child.File in questo prodotto:
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