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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... poetry would apply equally if the words were prose ) but also into the larger form ; for no one understood better than Virgil how structure could express meaning . It has also been my purpose to look at its central figure , or one ...
... poetry would apply equally if the words were prose ) but also into the larger form ; for no one understood better than Virgil how structure could express meaning . It has also been my purpose to look at its central figure , or one ...
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... 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 their own right . They are also designed to ...
... 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 their own right . They are also designed to ...
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... poet felt about some matters , unclear about others . The man who read through Paradise Lost and doubted whether its ... poetry , in itself , does not offer a basis on which either to support or confute the theory that he was neurotic or ...
... poet felt about some matters , unclear about others . The man who read through Paradise Lost and doubted whether its ... poetry , in itself , does not offer a basis on which either to support or confute the theory that he was neurotic or ...
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... poet we know nothing , as Virgil intended . The inquisitiveness of antiquity extended into his personal life , and ... poetry 4 Mart . 8. 55. 20 represents the Culex as an early work of Virgil's ; in the Vita Verg . ( 17 ) it is among ...
... poet we know nothing , as Virgil intended . The inquisitiveness of antiquity extended into his personal life , and ... poetry 4 Mart . 8. 55. 20 represents the Culex as an early work of Virgil's ; in the Vita Verg . ( 17 ) it is among ...
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... poet by Pollio , reflecting the poem's description of Alexis as ' delicias domini ' , the master's pet.7 We cannot be sure ... poetry , includes some stories of homosexual love in his narratives . 8 7 Ed . 2. I. Possibly the fact that an ...
... poet by Pollio , reflecting the poem's description of Alexis as ' delicias domini ' , the master's pet.7 We cannot be sure ... poetry , includes some stories of homosexual love in his narratives . 8 7 Ed . 2. I. Possibly the fact that an ...
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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