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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... Virgil between them effect a transformation in the poetic percep- tion of nature . Though my discussions of Greek poetry , Lucretius , and so on find place here because of their significance to Virgil , I hope that they are of value in ...
... Virgil between them effect a transformation in the poetic percep- tion of nature . Though my discussions of Greek poetry , Lucretius , and so on find place here because of their significance to Virgil , I hope that they are of value in ...
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... Virgil's Elements : Physics and Poetry in the Georgics ( Prince- ton , 1987 ) . R. Thomas , Virgil Georgics , 2 vols . ( Cambridge , 1988 ) . R. D. Williams , Virgil The Eclogues and Georgics ( London , 1979 ) . The Aeneid of Virgil , 2 ...
... Virgil's Elements : Physics and Poetry in the Georgics ( Prince- ton , 1987 ) . R. Thomas , Virgil Georgics , 2 vols . ( Cambridge , 1988 ) . R. D. Williams , Virgil The Eclogues and Georgics ( London , 1979 ) . The Aeneid of Virgil , 2 ...
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... Virgil, 2 vols. (London, 1894-1900). P. Vergili Maronis Bucolica et Georgica (London, 1898). W. Richter, Vergil Georgica (Munich, 1957). D. Ross, Virgil's Elements: Physics and Poetry in the Georgics (Princeton, 1987). R. Thomas, Virgil ...
... Virgil, 2 vols. (London, 1894-1900). P. Vergili Maronis Bucolica et Georgica (London, 1898). W. Richter, Vergil Georgica (Munich, 1957). D. Ross, Virgil's Elements: Physics and Poetry in the Georgics (Princeton, 1987). R. Thomas, Virgil ...
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... Virgil independent of his verse . Most of the biographical material about poets collected in antiquity was either fabricated or deduced , not always intelligently , from their own works , 1 but Donatus ' life of Virgil , though it ...
... Virgil independent of his verse . Most of the biographical material about poets collected in antiquity was either fabricated or deduced , not always intelligently , from their own works , 1 but Donatus ' life of Virgil , though it ...
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... Virgil's early works becomes extensive . In almost every case it is transparently clear that these verses cannot be ... Virgil , but the authenti- city of the fifth , eighth , and tenth poems is occasionally upheld . Each contains ...
... Virgil's early works becomes extensive . In almost every case it is transparently clear that these verses cannot be ... Virgil , but the authenti- city of the fifth , eighth , and tenth poems is occasionally upheld . Each contains ...
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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