Virgil's Experience: Nature and History: Times, Names, and PlacesThis book studies Virgil's ideas of nature, history, sense of nation, and sense of identity. It is exact and patient in its probing for nuance and detail, but also bold, wide, and original in its scope. It combines the study of Virgil with the study of attitudes to nature throughout antiquity. Blending literature with history, and in the case of Lucretius, philosophy, it offers a vision and an interpretation of the culture of the 1st century BC as a whole. It argues that Lucretius and Virgil affected a revolution in Western sensibility; claiming that a book about poetry should be a book about life, it combines scholarship and precision with a sense of the importance of literature and its capacity to enhance our understanding of our past and of ourselves. |
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... Augustan poetry . I have also given a large amount of space to Lucretius , since it is part of my argument that he and Virgil between them effect a transformation in the poetic percep- tion of nature . Though my discussions of Greek ...
... Augustan poetry . I have also given a large amount of space to Lucretius , since it is part of my argument that he and Virgil between them effect a transformation in the poetic percep- tion of nature . Though my discussions of Greek ...
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... Augustan period were good . However , part of Donatus ' ( or Suetonius ' ) story is that Virgil was a shy and retiring man ; if we choose to credit this , we may suppose that he guarded his privacy.2 In one respect we can indeed detect ...
... Augustan period were good . However , part of Donatus ' ( or Suetonius ' ) story is that Virgil was a shy and retiring man ; if we choose to credit this , we may suppose that he guarded his privacy.2 In one respect we can indeed detect ...
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... Augustan poet — not indeed from Horace , though he was a freedman's son . And there may be broader , more nebulous areas in which idio- syncrasy comes through , in a fashion which may seem neither intended nor unintended — where an ...
... Augustan poet — not indeed from Horace , though he was a freedman's son . And there may be broader , more nebulous areas in which idio- syncrasy comes through , in a fashion which may seem neither intended nor unintended — where an ...
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... Augustan poets , only Horace is interested in the atmosphere of such less obvious places as the everyday urban scene or the marshlands south of Rome , and he does not so much describe appearance as evoke character.81 But Apollonius has ...
... Augustan poets , only Horace is interested in the atmosphere of such less obvious places as the everyday urban scene or the marshlands south of Rome , and he does not so much describe appearance as evoke character.81 But Apollonius has ...
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... Augustan age two works have transformed the place of nature in poetry : De Rerum Natura and the Georgics . None the less , it will be worth while to glance ahead now , and to set the first of Virgil's epic landscapes against the ...
... Augustan age two works have transformed the place of nature in poetry : De Rerum Natura and the Georgics . None the less , it will be worth while to glance ahead now , and to set the first of Virgil's epic landscapes against the ...
Contents
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A Transpadanes Experience | 73 |
The Neoteric Experience | 131 |
Energy and Delight | 211 |
The Conquest of Death | 252 |
Earth and Country | 297 |
Land and Nation | 341 |
The Wanderings of Aeneas | 389 |
Latinus Kingdom | 463 |
Evanders Kingdom | 515 |
The Later Aeneid | 564 |
Virgil and the Poets | 593 |
Virgil Augustus and the Future | 631 |
Labor Improbus | 678 |
Index of Passages Cited | 685 |
Index of Greek and Latin Words | 704 |
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Virgil's Experience: Nature and History, Times, Names, and Places Richard Jenkyns No preview available - 1998 |
Virgil's Experience: Nature and History, Times, Names, and Places Richard Jenkyns No preview available - 1998 |
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