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Origin of the name LUCAN.
Etymology of the
name LUCAN.
Meaning of the baby name LUCAN.
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LUCAN.
Arthurian. A butler of Arthur's. From Latin Lucanus
(q.v.), meaning "of Lucania."
Lucan (Sir),
sometimes called "sir Lucas," butler of king Arthur, and a
knight of the Round Table.—Sir T. Malory, History of Prince Arthur
("Lucan," ii. 160; "Lucas," ii. 78; 1470). (Reader's
Handbook of Famous Names in Fiction, &c., Brewer, 1910)
... Nothing has for some time past
been more loudly demanded in learned and literary circles than a good
edition of Lucan. In spite of the glaring faults which disfigure
the poet's style, his hollow rhetoric hiding deep ignorance of men and
things, his gross violations of good taste, his want of all eye for
proportion, his inability to make an interesting narrative or to draw a
really consistent character, Lucan will always be read, and though a
youthful poet and with all the faults of youth, will probably be read by
grown men rather than by the young. It is not merely the interest
which attaches to his brilliant career and tragic end, not merely the
historical importance of the epoch to which he belongs and in the events
of which he was so much concerned, that made his writings classical in
the first century, and will always keep them so. There is more
than this: Lucan was a real poet. Only a poet could have
written, for instance, saevumque arte complexa dolorem Perfruitur
lacrimis et amat pro coniuge luctum. He had the native
intuitions of the poetical genius—a love of nature (witness his
similes), a soaring spirit attracted by lofty speculations, a mastery of
language and a style all his own... (The Classical Review, 1901)
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