The Georgics of Virgil: A Critical SurveyThis highly acclaimed book was, when it was first published in 1969, the first complete book in English devoted to the Georgics of Virgil, of which Mr Wilkinson provides a comprehensive survey. With careful scholarship and shrewd verbal and stylistic analysis combined with sober common sense, he deals with Virgil's early life, the conception of the poem and its composition and structure. He also examines the poem's intellectual ancestry, studies its literary, philosophic, political and agricultural aspects and finally deals with its fortunes from classical times to the present day. Prose translations of quoted passages make this book accessible to readers other than students of classics. |
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Contents
APPENDIXES | 3 |
EARLY LIFE OF VIRGIL | 16 |
THE CONCEPTION OF THE GEORGICS | 49 |
COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE | 69 |
THE ARISTAEUS EPYLLION | 108 |
PHILOSOPHICAL MORAL AND RELIGIOUS IDEAS | 121 |
POLITICAL AND SOCIAL IDEAS | 153 |
POETIC APPROACH AND ART | 183 |
THE GEORGICS IN AFTER TIMES | 270 |
The nineteenth century and after | 309 |
Recent literature on the structure of the Georgics page | 314 |
Literature on the Georgics in after times | 330 |
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