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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... —a misguided interpretation which has none the less felt the poem's flaw ( The Idea of Lyric ( Berkeley and Los Angeles , 1982 ) , 166 ) . II Ed . 8. 37-41 . 12 certain self - indulgence , there are both affection INTRODUCTION 9.
... —a misguided interpretation which has none the less felt the poem's flaw ( The Idea of Lyric ( Berkeley and Los Angeles , 1982 ) , 166 ) . II Ed . 8. 37-41 . 12 certain self - indulgence , there are both affection INTRODUCTION 9.
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... idea of his poetry as soft , melancholy , and perhaps a little limp to produce a received opinion . Of course , this area of enquiry is one where few hard certainties are to be had . It is possible that he had a homosexual streak ...
... idea of his poetry as soft , melancholy , and perhaps a little limp to produce a received opinion . Of course , this area of enquiry is one where few hard certainties are to be had . It is possible that he had a homosexual streak ...
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... idea of the god as a numen informing and vivifying the natural world is one such thing . So too with fertility religion : the springing up of the flowers at the coupling of Zeus and Hera , who here takes on the role of the Earth , has ...
... idea of the god as a numen informing and vivifying the natural world is one such thing . So too with fertility religion : the springing up of the flowers at the coupling of Zeus and Hera , who here takes on the role of the Earth , has ...
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... idea has necessarily become secularized . Nature itself is now the prim- ary theme , and the divine marriage has become a partially or wholly figurative way of conveying nature's emotional effect upon us . But for Homer neither do the ...
... idea has necessarily become secularized . Nature itself is now the prim- ary theme , and the divine marriage has become a partially or wholly figurative way of conveying nature's emotional effect upon us . But for Homer neither do the ...
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... idea that one should study and submit to nature ; an idea which leads ultimately to Blake's advice that one should stare at the knot in a tree for an hour . In that concep- tion , which was to suffuse the prose of Ruskin and the poetry ...
... idea that one should study and submit to nature ; an idea which leads ultimately to Blake's advice that one should stare at the knot in a tree for an hour . In that concep- tion , which was to suffuse the prose of Ruskin and the poetry ...
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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