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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... pathetic fallacy ' , by which he meant the practice of attributing feeling ( in Greek , pathos ) to inanimate nature . As an example he took Kingsley's Sands of Dee : ' They rowed her in across the rolling foam | The cruel , crawling ...
... pathetic fallacy ' , by which he meant the practice of attributing feeling ( in Greek , pathos ) to inanimate nature . As an example he took Kingsley's Sands of Dee : ' They rowed her in across the rolling foam | The cruel , crawling ...
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... pathetic fallacy . And as we shall discover , the finest animation of the inanimate within the Iliad is of such a kind that the term ' pathetic fallacy ' no longer seems appropriate . Rather , it presupposes a way of thinking and speak ...
... pathetic fallacy . And as we shall discover , the finest animation of the inanimate within the Iliad is of such a kind that the term ' pathetic fallacy ' no longer seems appropriate . Rather , it presupposes a way of thinking and speak ...
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... pathetic fallacy should be uncommon in early Greek literature but ubiquitous today is less obvious . Ruskin 7 Od . 7. 112-32 . 8 Geo . I. 311 ff . ( and cf. the simile at Aen . 2. 304–8 ) . 9 Cf. F. Braudel , The Mediterranean and the ...
... pathetic fallacy should be uncommon in early Greek literature but ubiquitous today is less obvious . Ruskin 7 Od . 7. 112-32 . 8 Geo . I. 311 ff . ( and cf. the simile at Aen . 2. 304–8 ) . 9 Cf. F. Braudel , The Mediterranean and the ...
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... pathetic fallacy to be connected with a loss of belief in gods or spirits of nature . For Homer , he argues , the tree and the tree - nymph , the sea and the sea - god were sharply separ- ate ; he could thus fill his landscape with ...
... pathetic fallacy to be connected with a loss of belief in gods or spirits of nature . For Homer , he argues , the tree and the tree - nymph , the sea and the sea - god were sharply separ- ate ; he could thus fill his landscape with ...
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... pathetic fallacy ' is to mis- take its meaning , for Homer means strongly what he says . Indeed , his conception derives its force from the absence of the pathetic fallacy . In a modern poet a joyful sea might not seem much : in its ...
... pathetic fallacy ' is to mis- take its meaning , for Homer means strongly what he says . Indeed , his conception derives its force from the absence of the pathetic fallacy . In a modern poet a joyful sea might not seem much : in its ...
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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