Early Augustan Virgil
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Author | : Virgil |
Publisher | : Bucknell University Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Aeneas (Legendary character) |
ISBN | : 0838757359 |
Early Augustan Virgil makes accessible a substantial text by a pioneer in couplet writing and in the theory and practice of translation, vindicating Pope's distinction when he enjoins his reader to "praise the easy vigor of a line,/ Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join." The volume thus puts Denham's version of Virgil sympathetically into a context where it can be seen to make an important contribution to the development of the English Augustan style, thus making a case for the formative influence of classical translation upon the development of English poetry. It also makes a contribution to the reception of Virgil and will be of interest to readers of classical and English poetry alike. --Book Jacket.
Author | : Francis Cairns |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1989-03-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521353580 |
An examination of the main characters in the Aeneid - Aeneas himself, Dido and Turnus - in the light of Virgil's contemporary Augustan political and literary ideology. The characters and the plot and incident of the epic are seen as embodying and exemplifying first the ancient ideals of kingship and concord, and second the Roman self-identification as at once 'Italian' and 'Trojan', and finally as reflecting the literary self-evaluation of the Augustan age. In the literary area, Virgil's relations with contemporary Roman elegy, with early Greek lyric and, most important, with Homer, are studied and reevaluated. Virgilian scholars and students of Augustan literature in general will find this book of interest to them.
Author | : Charles Martindale |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1997-10-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521498852 |
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.
Author | : Virgil |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2012-03-12 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0486113973 |
Monumental epic poem tells the heroic story of Aeneas, a Trojan who escaped the burning ruins of Troy to found Lavinium, the parent city of Rome, in the west.
Author | : Richard F. Thomas |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2001-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139433512 |
This book is an examination of the ideological reception of Virgil at specific moments in the last two millennia. The author focuses on the emperor Augustus in the poetry of Virgil, detects in the poets and grammarians of antiquity alternately a collaborative oppositional reading and an attempt to suppress such reading, studies creative translation (particularly Dryden's), which reasserts the 'Augustan' Virgil, and examines naive translation which can be truer to the spirit of Virgil. Scrutiny of 'textual cleansing', philology's rewriting or excision of troubling readings, leads to readings by both supporters and opponents of fascism and National Socialism to support or subvert the latter-day Augustus. The book ends with a diachronic examination of the ways successive ages have tried to make the Aeneid conform to their upbeat expectations of this poet.
Author | : Hans-Peter Stahl |
Publisher | : Classical Press of Wales |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2009-12-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1910589306 |
This title features a collection of 14 papers in which contributors use diverging critical methods on a selection of extracts from Vergil's epic, with the examination of political references in the work being prominent, as well as the question of the Aeneid's central meaning. Contents include: Vergil announcing the Aeneid. On Geo. 3.1-48 (Egil Kraggerud); The Peopling of the Underworld (Anton Powell); Vergil as a Republican (Eckard Lefevre); The Sword-Belt of Pallas: Moral Symbolism and Political Ideology (Stephen Harrison); The Isolation of Turnus (Richard F. Thomas) and The End and the Meaning (David West)
Author | : Nandini B. Pandey |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2018-10-11 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1108422659 |
Explores the dynamic interactions among Latin poets, artists, and audiences in constructing and critiquing imperial power in Augustan Rome.
Author | : Virgil |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Epic poetry, Latin |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Richard Jenkyns |
Publisher | : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 729 |
Release | : 1998-11-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 019158455X |
This 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.
Author | : Helene Adeline Guerber |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2017-08-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781375465397 |