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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... look at its central figure , or one element in him , from various angles : not only to get inside his verse , but to walk round him , to look at what lies before and behind him , to see the world that he saw , to show him in the current ...
... look at its central figure , or one element in him , from various angles : not only to get inside his verse , but to walk round him , to look at what lies before and behind him , to see the world that he saw , to show him in the current ...
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... looks like a real name — but the Life is unable to vouch for it . What should be clear is that the pederastic version has no basis . Most of it is transparently fabricated out of the second Eclogue , not only the name Alexander but also ...
... looks like a real name — but the Life is unable to vouch for it . What should be clear is that the pederastic version has no basis . Most of it is transparently fabricated out of the second Eclogue , not only the name Alexander but also ...
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... look up at the heaven and cry hue , ' rain ' , then down at the ground and cry kue , ' conceive ' . Is 14 Il . 14. 347 - SI . 15 Proclus in Tim . 40e ( iii . 176 Diehl ) ; cf. W. K. C. Guthrie , The Greeks and their Gods ( London , 1950 ) ...
... look up at the heaven and cry hue , ' rain ' , then down at the ground and cry kue , ' conceive ' . Is 14 Il . 14. 347 - SI . 15 Proclus in Tim . 40e ( iii . 176 Diehl ) ; cf. W. K. C. Guthrie , The Greeks and their Gods ( London , 1950 ) ...
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... look of melting love , ' softer than sleep or death ' ( 3. 61 f . ) , as though Tristan had called in at archaic Sparta . particularity or exactness of perception ; Alcman gives an account LANDSCAPE IN GREEK POETRY 33.
... look of melting love , ' softer than sleep or death ' ( 3. 61 f . ) , as though Tristan had called in at archaic Sparta . particularity or exactness of perception ; Alcman gives an account LANDSCAPE IN GREEK POETRY 33.
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... look for the first appearance of the sentiment of place ; that is , the combination of personal emotion or experience with the description or evocation of the individual character of a scene . This poem contains both a mood and a ...
... look for the first appearance of the sentiment of place ; that is , the combination of personal emotion or experience with the description or evocation of the individual character of a scene . This poem contains both a mood and a ...
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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