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III. OVID THE MODERN

"Les anciens, monsieur, sont les anciens, et nous sommes
ies gens de maintenant."

MOLIÈRE

Prisca iuvent alios, ego me nunc denique nature
Gratulor: haec aetas moribus apta meis.

OVID

"En vérité Ovide est encore, en ce debut du XXe siècle,
un poète d'actualité."

RIPERT

TWO eminent authorities on Dante have
declared:

"It would hardly be an exaggeration
to say that distinctly modern literature has its
springs in the French poets of the twelfth cen-
tury, and that these poets were inspired and
(paradox as it may seem) 'modernized' by the
inspiration they drew from Ovid." 57

There is nothing paradoxical here, for Ovid
is a modern of the moderns. It is curious how
we change our views about modernity as we
push back our studies into the past. We begin
by setting the highest values on things modern.
We rightly reject what is antiquated and mean-
ingless in favor of what is contemporary and

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Publication Information: Book Title: Ovid and His Influence. Contributors: Edward Kennard Rand - author. Publisher: Marshall Jones Company. Place of Publication: Boston. Publication Year: 1925. Page Number: 168.
    
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