The Cambridge Companion to VirgilCharles Martindale Virgil became a school author in his own lifetime and the centre of the Western canon for the next 1800 years, exerting a major influence on European literature, art, and politics. This Companion is designed as an indispensable guide for anyone seeking a fuller understanding of an author critical to so many disciplines. It consists of essays by seventeen scholars from Britain, the USA, Ireland and Italy which offer a range of different perspectives both traditional and innovative on Virgil's works, and a renewed sense of why Virgil matters today. The Companion is divided into four main sections, focussing on reception, genre, context, and form. This ground-breaking book not only provides a wealth of material for an informed reading but also offers sophisticated insights which point to the shape of Virgilian scholarship and criticism to come. |
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... Dryden does not suggest that West is in any simple sense a 'better' reader ofVirgil,even ifheis possessionof certain scholarlydata that Dryden didnot have.The mistakeofscholars is to supposethatthe discourses within which they work are ...
... Dryden does not suggest that West is in any simple sense a 'better' reader ofVirgil,even ifheis possessionof certain scholarlydata that Dryden didnot have.The mistakeofscholars is to supposethatthe discourses within which they work are ...
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... Dryden's Virgil –and Dryden had readwidely in earlier translations, and wasread byalmost all later translators. When we interpret we usually think that itis simply we alone who are doing the interpretation. But our language ...
... Dryden's Virgil –and Dryden had readwidely in earlier translations, and wasread byalmost all later translators. When we interpret we usually think that itis simply we alone who are doing the interpretation. But our language ...
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... Dryden in 1697 cries up the value of good native monosyllables, and in 1859 Singleton boasts of his 'choice of AngloSaxon words' (p. xvii). Byemploying native English words translatorsstrive to make VirgiltrulyEnglish, rather than ...
... Dryden in 1697 cries up the value of good native monosyllables, and in 1859 Singleton boasts of his 'choice of AngloSaxon words' (p. xvii). Byemploying native English words translatorsstrive to make VirgiltrulyEnglish, rather than ...
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... ,|A HighChurch Progenyfrom Heavendescends.'7 John Dryden triedhishand atimitating Virgil afterthe Restoration. His Astraea Reduxdrawson the Fourth Eclogue forits rejoicings at the return of Charles II, and the antiDutch miniepic Annus.
... ,|A HighChurch Progenyfrom Heavendescends.'7 John Dryden triedhishand atimitating Virgil afterthe Restoration. His Astraea Reduxdrawson the Fourth Eclogue forits rejoicings at the return of Charles II, and the antiDutch miniepic Annus.
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... Dryden's Virgil isthegreatest offspring ofthe lineofresistant Virgils composed by displaced writers.It appeared in arichfolio ornamented withthe plates from Ogilby's version, and was ostentatiously not dedicated to William III. Dryden's ...
... Dryden's Virgil isthegreatest offspring ofthe lineofresistant Virgils composed by displaced writers.It appeared in arichfolio ornamented withthe plates from Ogilby's version, and was ostentatiously not dedicated to William III. Dryden's ...
Contents
COLIN BURROW 3 Modern receptions andtheirinterpretative implications | |
Aspects of Virgils reception in antiquity | |
The Virgil commentaryof Servius | |
Virgil in | |
the Eclogues | |
value and meaning in the Georgics | |
religious and philosophical ideas | |
The Virgilian intertext | |
Virgils style | |
Virgilian narrative | |
b Ecphrasis | |
Approaching characterisation in Virgil | |
sexuality and gender in Virgils poetry | |
Virgil | |
Virgilian epic | |
the Book of Virgil | |
Virgils poetry incontemporary context | |
Rome and its traditions | |
the death of Virgil | |
Index | |
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