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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Page 9
... feel that the person whom Corydon most loves is himself . By contrast , every- one feels in the eighth Eclogue that the scene of the boy and the girl in the orchard engages Virgil's highest imaginative powers . " This too is made out of ...
... feel that the person whom Corydon most loves is himself . By contrast , every- one feels in the eighth Eclogue that the scene of the boy and the girl in the orchard engages Virgil's highest imaginative powers . " This too is made out of ...
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... feel- ing for Dido in spite of the problems that it makes for him . The sense of many readers that Aeneas is a stuffed shirt , which runs counter to what the poet tries to tell us , is surely due to the way in which his experience is ...
... feel- ing for Dido in spite of the problems that it makes for him . The sense of many readers that Aeneas is a stuffed shirt , which runs counter to what the poet tries to tell us , is surely due to the way in which his experience is ...
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... feeling for this is bound up with his feeling for humanity , and we shall have opportunity to observe his use of erotic colouring . The embraces of Venus and Vulcan are lushly and voluptuously described ; Montaigne was startled to meet ...
... feeling for this is bound up with his feeling for humanity , and we shall have opportunity to observe his use of erotic colouring . The embraces of Venus and Vulcan are lushly and voluptuously described ; Montaigne was startled to meet ...
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... feel Homer's gods , though immortal and very powerful , to be still part of a natural order ; here we feel the presence of the super- natural , a change in the quality of experience . And so with Poseidon's epiphany . The drama of the ...
... feel Homer's gods , though immortal and very powerful , to be still part of a natural order ; here we feel the presence of the super- natural , a change in the quality of experience . And so with Poseidon's epiphany . The drama of the ...
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... feel that the poet has seen the island keenly , and responded personally to what he has seen . And there seems to be ... feel- ing for nature ' of some kind here . But this feeling is still far from 4o Alcman fr . 89 P. In one other ...
... feel that the poet has seen the island keenly , and responded personally to what he has seen . And there seems to be ... feel- ing for nature ' of some kind here . But this feeling is still far from 4o Alcman fr . 89 P. In one other ...
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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