A recusatio is a poem (or part thereof) in which the poet says he is supposedly unable or disinclined to write the type of poem which he originally intended...

behind Dante's adverse judgement of Celestine was the Thomist concept of recusatio tensionis, the unworthy refusal of a task that is within one's natural...

morosiora se praestant, nec facile se exorari sinunt. Ακκισμός - ficta recusatio, simulatio qua quis utitur fingens se accipere nolle quod tamen vult....

which contains a dedication (1–62) of the poem to Germanicus, Ovid's recusatio, and a description of the poem's theme as the Roman calendar, festivals...

on epic themes to concentrate on love poetry instead: a new vision or recusatio. He composed like Stesichorus in a literary language, largely Epic with...

K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also References quatrain quintain recusatio redaction red herring refrain regency novel regionalism renga A genre...

prolusio. Leipzig. Glauthier, Patrick. “Phaedrus, Callimachus and the Recusatio to Success.” Classical Antiquity, 28.2, 2009, pp. 248–278. Hartman, Jacobus...

pastoral poem usually containing dialogue between shepherds. Georgic Recusatio: a poem (or part thereof) in which the poet claim that they are supposedly...