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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... literary , cultural , and social influences which acted upon him , and the effect which he had upon others . At the heart of the book is an investigation into his attitude to nature and landscape ; his feel- ing for Rome , Italy , and ...
... literary , cultural , and social influences which acted upon him , and the effect which he had upon others . At the heart of the book is an investigation into his attitude to nature and landscape ; his feel- ing for Rome , Italy , and ...
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... literary detail in this book , it also deals , sometimes explicitly , more often by implica- tion , with politics and religion , with man as a social and a spiritual being . A book about poetry ought to be a book about life . There is a ...
... literary detail in this book , it also deals , sometimes explicitly , more often by implica- tion , with politics and religion , with man as a social and a spiritual being . A book about poetry ought to be a book about life . There is a ...
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... literary , cul- tural , social , and political experience ; as such , it is a historical study , and one that aims to combine detail with a broader view . It is not at all a quest for the historical Virgil , but it might be said to con ...
... literary , cul- tural , social , and political experience ; as such , it is a historical study , and one that aims to combine detail with a broader view . It is not at all a quest for the historical Virgil , but it might be said to con ...
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... literary colour to what is in part a consciously artificial poem . Perhaps he simply wanted a variation , from his model or from the other poems that he planned . We do not know ; what we can say is that the homosexual theme is not of ...
... literary colour to what is in part a consciously artificial poem . Perhaps he simply wanted a variation , from his model or from the other poems that he planned . We do not know ; what we can say is that the homosexual theme is not of ...
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... literary experience was unusual in a world where books were uncommon and expensive , and though Latin poets often advertise their know- ledge of Greek precedent , Virgil should be considered exceptional.2 But it is not the purpose of ...
... literary experience was unusual in a world where books were uncommon and expensive , and though Latin poets often advertise their know- ledge of Greek precedent , Virgil should be considered exceptional.2 But it is not the purpose of ...
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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