Virgil in a Cultural Tradition: Essays to Celebrate the BimilleniumRichard Andrew Cardwell, Janet Hamilton University of Nottingham, 1986 - 148 pages |
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... literature like Teuffel's , and the classic survey of medieval Latin literature by Manitius have garnered them . Perhaps the work deserving of the most respectful salutation in this respect is that of Domenico Comparetti , which was ...
... literature like Teuffel's , and the classic survey of medieval Latin literature by Manitius have garnered them . Perhaps the work deserving of the most respectful salutation in this respect is that of Domenico Comparetti , which was ...
Page 86
... literature . Of course , the Middle Ages had allegorised and christianised him - particularly in the reading of the Georgics . The French Renaissance shrugs off the didacticism , the allegorisation and turns to the poetry itself . As ...
... literature . Of course , the Middle Ages had allegorised and christianised him - particularly in the reading of the Georgics . The French Renaissance shrugs off the didacticism , the allegorisation and turns to the poetry itself . As ...
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... literature , perhaps more than any other Western European literature , depends on a reader who will recognise borrowings , who will hear the orchestration of ' sources ' in the present context with rich associations of previous contexts ...
... literature , perhaps more than any other Western European literature , depends on a reader who will recognise borrowings , who will hear the orchestration of ' sources ' in the present context with rich associations of previous contexts ...
Contents
The Cycle of Growth and Decay in Lucretius and Virgil | 17 |
The Idea of Empire in the Aeneid | 39 |
Virgil and Medieval Epic | 52 |
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