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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... Lucretius , since it is part of my argument that he and Virgil between them effect a transformation in the poetic percep- tion of nature . Though my discussions of Greek poetry , Lucretius , and so on find place here because of their ...
... Lucretius , since it is part of my argument that he and Virgil between them effect a transformation in the poetic percep- tion of nature . Though my discussions of Greek poetry , Lucretius , and so on find place here because of their ...
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... Lucretius is perhaps a case in point . His beliefs and the passion with which he maintained them are not in doubt , but his poetry , in itself , does not offer a basis on which either to support or confute the theory that he was ...
... Lucretius is perhaps a case in point . His beliefs and the passion with which he maintained them are not in doubt , but his poetry , in itself , does not offer a basis on which either to support or confute the theory that he was ...
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... Lucretius and Virgil we shall meet the hieros gamos again , ' but though Lucretius is a materialist and Virgil presents himself as a conventional worshipper of the gods , for both of them alike the idea has necessarily become ...
... Lucretius and Virgil we shall meet the hieros gamos again , ' but though Lucretius is a materialist and Virgil presents himself as a conventional worshipper of the gods , for both of them alike the idea has necessarily become ...
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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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