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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... imagination and that it is , in the deepest sense of a plain word , useful ; and so while there is plenty of literary detail in this book , it also deals , sometimes explicitly , more often by implica- tion , with politics and religion ...
... imagination and that it is , in the deepest sense of a plain word , useful ; and so while there is plenty of literary detail in this book , it also deals , sometimes explicitly , more often by implica- tion , with politics and religion ...
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... imagination of a man with literary talent born in his time and place . We shall find that he is indeed the child of his age , yet unique in his response to that age and in his interpretation of it , one who experiences the Zeitgeist but ...
... imagination of a man with literary talent born in his time and place . We shall find that he is indeed the child of his age , yet unique in his response to that age and in his interpretation of it , one who experiences the Zeitgeist but ...
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... imagination to write Figaro and Cost ; which is to say not that the composer must have been a good man but that he must at least have been able to have a conception of spiritual capa- ciousness which would be necessarily foreign to the ...
... imagination to write Figaro and Cost ; which is to say not that the composer must have been a good man but that he must at least have been able to have a conception of spiritual capa- ciousness which would be necessarily foreign to the ...
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... imaginative powers . " This too is made out of Theocritus , yet the picture of lost childhood idyll and the coup de foudre of first love is intensely felt . Again , the absent Lycoris , lamented by Gallus in the tenth Eclogue , is ...
... imaginative powers . " This too is made out of Theocritus , yet the picture of lost childhood idyll and the coup de foudre of first love is intensely felt . Again , the absent Lycoris , lamented by Gallus in the tenth Eclogue , is ...
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... imagination . The deaths of Nisus and Euryalus stir Virgil to this exclamation : 13 fortunati ambo ! si quid mea carmina possunt , nulla dies umquam memori vos eximet aevo , dum domus Aeneae Capitoli immobile saxum accolet imperiumque ...
... imagination . The deaths of Nisus and Euryalus stir Virgil to this exclamation : 13 fortunati ambo ! si quid mea carmina possunt , nulla dies umquam memori vos eximet aevo , dum domus Aeneae Capitoli immobile saxum accolet imperiumque ...
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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