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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... spirit in which he treats nature altogether , not flattening it into a symbol of peace , say , or beneficence — but find- ing it to be lovable in itself , for its own sake , and therefore depicting it complete , in both its good and bad ...
... spirit in which he treats nature altogether , not flattening it into a symbol of peace , say , or beneficence — but find- ing it to be lovable in itself , for its own sake , and therefore depicting it complete , in both its good and bad ...
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... spirit of fancy that animates the inanimate , we constantly use the pathetic fallacy without realizing what we are doing at all : we are always talking about storms raging , savage seas , wild mountains , threatening skies , gloomy ...
... spirit of fancy that animates the inanimate , we constantly use the pathetic fallacy without realizing what we are doing at all : we are always talking about storms raging , savage seas , wild mountains , threatening skies , gloomy ...
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... spirit . On the other hand , there was nothing in antiquity quite like the nineteenth - century industrial city or the twentieth - century mega- lopolis . From ancient urbanism , therefore , one would expect , again , some change in ...
... spirit . On the other hand , there was nothing in antiquity quite like the nineteenth - century industrial city or the twentieth - century mega- lopolis . From ancient urbanism , therefore , one would expect , again , some change in ...
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... spirits of nature . For Homer , he argues , the tree and the tree - nymph , the sea and the sea - god were sharply separ- ate ; he could thus fill his landscape with spiritual presences and still depict nature itself exactly as it is ...
... spirits of nature . For Homer , he argues , the tree and the tree - nymph , the sea and the sea - god were sharply separ- ate ; he could thus fill his landscape with spiritual presences and still depict nature itself exactly as it is ...
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... spirit , her concealments and deceptions , her stylish woman - of - the- world behaviour ; but once more it is unnecessary . This is the sort of place that Circe will naturally inhabit , being the sort of person that she is . 21 Od . 9 ...
... spirit , her concealments and deceptions , her stylish woman - of - the- world behaviour ; but once more it is unnecessary . This is the sort of place that Circe will naturally inhabit , being the sort of person that she is . 21 Od . 9 ...
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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