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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... verse through a close study of the text , an enquiry into the details of language and sense ( a good deal that is written about Latin poetry would apply equally if the words were prose ) but also into the larger form ; for no one ...
... verse through a close study of the text , an enquiry into the details of language and sense ( a good deal that is written about Latin poetry would apply equally if the words were prose ) but also into the larger form ; for no one ...
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... verse . Most of the biographical material about poets collected in antiquity was either fabricated or deduced , not always intelligently , from their own works , 1 but Donatus ' life of Virgil , though it includes some obvious nonsense ...
... verse . Most of the biographical material about poets collected in antiquity was either fabricated or deduced , not always intelligently , from their own works , 1 but Donatus ' life of Virgil , though it includes some obvious nonsense ...
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... verses cannot be his , as scholars now agree , though a few still want to attribute to him one or two poems from the Catalepton . Their hope is vain . No one denies that most items in this mis- cellany of short pieces are plainly not by ...
... verses cannot be his , as scholars now agree , though a few still want to attribute to him one or two poems from the Catalepton . Their hope is vain . No one denies that most items in this mis- cellany of short pieces are plainly not by ...
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... 10. 46–9 , discussed below . This note of languorous eroticism is heard again in the sensuous verses of Propertius ; see Ch . 14 . 13 Aen . 9. 446–9 . 14 Aen . 9. 216-18 . he had broken off from Dido's story to tell us ΙΟ BEFORE VIRGIL.
... 10. 46–9 , discussed below . This note of languorous eroticism is heard again in the sensuous verses of Propertius ; see Ch . 14 . 13 Aen . 9. 446–9 . 14 Aen . 9. 216-18 . he had broken off from Dido's story to tell us ΙΟ BEFORE VIRGIL.
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... verse one could see the whole of the old man's life as though written up on a votive tablet ; 25 now he goes further , and offers a photograph . But Virgil offers a sort of imper- sonal individuality : while pressing his own stamp on ...
... verse one could see the whole of the old man's life as though written up on a votive tablet ; 25 now he goes further , and offers a photograph . But Virgil offers a sort of imper- sonal individuality : while pressing his own stamp on ...
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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