Urbane 1100 Words You Need Week 18 Day 2

Urbane 1100 Words You Need Urbane 1100 Words You Need /ɜːˈbeɪn/ (adj) showing politeness, courtesy and sophistication, civilized, witty and polished, suave, refined and cultured, courteous, elegant, genteel, sophisticated: The concepts of social style and manners function essentially as a means of separating outsiders from insiders, of excluding and including, so here too Catullus adopts a relational or positional model for his poetry. But scholarship has generally taken a different direction with Catullus' urbanity, trying to elicit an ethical component from the poetry by elaborating the principles of urbane behavior and their derivation from aesthetic principles: good poetry is like ...