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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... comes into play — but this scene is none the less not so much a breach of the natural order as a heighten- ing of nature's proper processes . The scene is unlike Poseidon's epiphany in that no sentience is attributed to insentient ...
... comes into play — but this scene is none the less not so much a breach of the natural order as a heighten- ing of nature's proper processes . The scene is unlike Poseidon's epiphany in that no sentience is attributed to insentient ...
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... come forth ' like a mountain - bred lion ' . " He is naked and briny , they are fair - tressed maidens ; 26 he is in the brush , they beside the fair flow- ing ... comes nearest to depicting what we might call an LANDSCAPE IN GREEK POETRY 29.
... come forth ' like a mountain - bred lion ' . " He is naked and briny , they are fair - tressed maidens ; 26 he is in the brush , they beside the fair flow- ing ... comes nearest to depicting what we might call an LANDSCAPE IN GREEK POETRY 29.
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Nature and History: Times, Names, and Places Richard Jenkyns. Homer comes nearest to depicting what we might call an ... come from inside the cave and are perceived from without ( one of the distinctive features of the whole description ...
Nature and History: Times, Names, and Places Richard Jenkyns. Homer comes nearest to depicting what we might call an ... come from inside the cave and are perceived from without ( one of the distinctive features of the whole description ...
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... Come hither , pray , from Crete to this holy shrine , where is your pleasant grove of apple - trees , and altars fuming with ... comes down . Here a meadow , pasture for horses , blooms with spring flowers , the breezes blow graciously ...
... Come hither , pray , from Crete to this holy shrine , where is your pleasant grove of apple - trees , and altars fuming with ... comes down . Here a meadow , pasture for horses , blooms with spring flowers , the breezes blow graciously ...
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... comes down from the shimmer of the leaves . We are a long way from the clarity with which Homer described even Calypso's bower . Sappho is concerned to convey an experience of drowsiness : the shadows and the shimmer are mesmeric ; to a ...
... comes down from the shimmer of the leaves . We are a long way from the clarity with which Homer described even Calypso's bower . Sappho is concerned to convey an experience of drowsiness : the shadows and the shimmer are mesmeric ; to a ...
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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Achilles adjective Aeneas Aeneid Anchises ancient Arcadia Ascanius atque Augustan Augustus Caesar Callimachus Carm Catullus Cicero colour comes context contrast Creusa death describes Dido distinctive divine earth echoes Eclogues emotional Ennius epic Epicurus Evander experience father Faunus feel force Georgics glory goddess gods golden age Greek hero Homer Horace human idea Iliad imagination Italian Italy Jupiter land landscape later Latin Latium laus Italiae lines literary look Lucr Lucretius meaning metaphor moral nature Nymphs Odyssey once Ovid Pallas paradox passage pastoral pathetic fallacy patriotic perhaps phrase poem poem's poet poet's poetic poetry praise Propertius quae rerum river Roman Rome scene seems seen sense sentence significance simile speech spirit story suggests tells theme Theocritus things Tiber Tiberinus Tibullus tion tone Transpadane Trojans Troy Turnus Venus verse Virgil vision whole woods words