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Author : Scott McGill
Release : 2005-07-28
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 646/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Virgil Recomposed by : Scott McGill
Download or read book Virgil Recomposed written by Scott McGill. This book was released on 2005-07-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to present a comprehensive study of the mythological and secular Virgilian centos.
Author : Karl Olav Sandnes
Release : 2011-02-14
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 189/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Gospel 'According to Homer and Virgil' by : Karl Olav Sandnes
Download or read book The Gospel 'According to Homer and Virgil' written by Karl Olav Sandnes. This book was released on 2011-02-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigates the phenomenon of Christian centos, i.e. attempts at rewriting the Gospel stories in both the style and vocabulary of either Homer (Greek) or Virgil (Latin). Out of the classical epics an entirely new text emerged.
Author : R. Alden Smith
Release : 2011-06-24
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 540/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Virgil by : R. Alden Smith
Download or read book Virgil written by R. Alden Smith. This book was released on 2011-06-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VIRGIL “A truly useful introduction to Vergil and his poetry. Smith combines up-to-date information on the issues with an intelligent and well-written assessment. Highly recommended.” Karl Galinsky, University of Texas at Austin “For the newcomer to Virgil, this book will be a welcome introduction to the poet’s works and their reception by critics, artists, and scholars through the centuries.” Peter E. Knox, University of Colorado, Boulder Incorporating the most up-to-date classical scholarship, Virgilian scholar R. Alden Smith presents a comprehensive introduction to Virgil’s literary works and narrative technique. In addition to exploring the historical milieu, this book considers the reception of Virgil’s works, citing examples from painting, sculpture, and drama. After analyzing Virgil’s three major works – the Eclogues, Georgics, and the great national epic of Rome, the Aeneid – Smith addresses other key topics, including the manuscript tradition and various problems associated with establishment of the text. Virgil’s legacy, including his influence on subsequent Latin poetry and later literary figures (e.g., Dante, Camões, Milton) is also a feature of this study. Combining scholarly rigor and an accessible writing style, Smith offers an insightful introduction to Virgil and the world in which he lived.
Author : Alison Keith
Release : 2019-12-12
Genre : Literary Collections
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 359/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Virgil by : Alison Keith
Download or read book Virgil written by Alison Keith. This book was released on 2019-12-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The works of Virgil (70–19 BCE) define the 'golden age' of Latin poetry and have inspired a long tradition of interpretation and adaptation that starts in his own time and extends to important modern authors. His ascent from the lesser genre of pastoral (the Bucolics) through a more ambitious didactic mode (the Georgics) to the soaring heights of epic (the incomparable Aeneid) shaped the canonical writings of other authors, from his younger contemporary Ovid through the medieval writers Dante and Petrarch to the early modern poets Spenser and Milton and well beyond. Virgil, as Alison Keith shows, has never gone out of critical or popular fashion. This wide-ranging introduction appraises a figure of central importance in the history of Western music, art and literature. Offering close readings of the Bucolics, Georgics and Aeneid, Keith places Virgil and his poetry in historical context before tracing their impact at key moments in the culture of the West. Emphasis is placed on Virgil's reception of the classical literary and philosophical traditions, and on how his poetry has attracted modern interest from writers as diverse as T. S. Eliot and Ursula K. Le Guin.
Author : Craig Kallendorf
Release : 2019-12-02
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 351/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Printing Virgil by : Craig Kallendorf
Download or read book Printing Virgil written by Craig Kallendorf. This book was released on 2019-12-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work Craig Kallendorf argues that the printing press played a crucial, and previously unrecognized, role in the reception of the Roman poet Virgil in the Renaissance, transforming his work into poetry that was both classical and postclassical.
