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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... sense of solit- ariness does not , in most places , seem like Virgil's conscious design ; but he followed his star , and this is where it led him . His seeking for salvation through community and institutions — into which we shall see ...
... sense of solit- ariness does not , in most places , seem like Virgil's conscious design ; but he followed his star , and this is where it led him . His seeking for salvation through community and institutions — into which we shall see ...
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... sense of the numinous . We might suppose that Homer lacked this sense , as we understand it , but for one or two passages . One such passage is the encounter , by night , of Priam and the disguised god Hermes . " That has something ...
... sense of the numinous . We might suppose that Homer lacked this sense , as we understand it , but for one or two passages . One such passage is the encounter , by night , of Priam and the disguised god Hermes . " That has something ...
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... sense perceptions contributes . The place is ' shadowed with roses ' , a strange phrase , suggestive of an opulent dimness ; the water babbles not along the ground but through the apple boughs ; sleep comes down from the shimmer of the ...
... sense perceptions contributes . The place is ' shadowed with roses ' , a strange phrase , suggestive of an opulent dimness ; the water babbles not along the ground but through the apple boughs ; sleep comes down from the shimmer of the ...
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... sense of communion with nature may all seem new , and more like modern or perhaps romantic sen- timent than anything we have met hitherto ; on the other hand , it is not ordinary nature that we see in the Bacchae but nature in an ...
... sense of communion with nature may all seem new , and more like modern or perhaps romantic sen- timent than anything we have met hitherto ; on the other hand , it is not ordinary nature that we see in the Bacchae but nature in an ...
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... sense of modern immediacy is enhanced by Aeschylus ' extraordinary dramaturgy , which comes close to dissolving the boundaries between actors and audience . Uniquely in Greek tragedy Athens in this play does not have a king , and when ...
... sense of modern immediacy is enhanced by Aeschylus ' extraordinary dramaturgy , which comes close to dissolving the boundaries between actors and audience . Uniquely in Greek tragedy Athens in this play does not have a king , and when ...
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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