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Author : Margaret Tudeau-Clayton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 32,66 MB
Release : 2006-11-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521032742
Examines how Virgil is represented in early modern England, particularly in Jonson's and Shakespeare's writings.
Author : Andrea Cucchiarelli
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 50,19 MB
Release : 2023-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0192888773
Virgil's Eclogues are a fundamental text of Western literature that served as a model for the nascent poetry of the Augustan and later of the Imperial Age. Inspired by the bucolic poetry of Theocritus, the work uses the apparent simplicity of rural settings to explore complex elements of poetic, literary, philosophical, and even figurative culture, and to express the drama of civil war and expropriations. In this commentary, accompanied by a detailed introduction, Andrea Cucchiarelli analyses the Eclogues in depth, establishing comparisons with both Greek and Roman poetic models, with philosophical texts, and with significant later texts from the Roman poetic tradition. The commentary is the first to offer a systematic account of the poem in its historical context, between the end of the Republic and the Age of Augustus: particular attention is also paid to the language of the figurative arts, which for Roman readers constituted an important complement to literary knowledge of myths and stories. The volume offers the reader a reliable and concise interpretation of the text, which is systematically lemmatized and annotated throughout; each eclogue is additionally accompanied by an introductory overview and a detailed bibliography to direct further reading.
Author : Fiachra Mac Góráin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 22,77 MB
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1107170184
Presents stimulating chapters on Virgil and his reception, offering an authoritative overview of the current state of Virgilian studies.
Author : Philip Hardie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,20 MB
Release : 2014-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 085772326X
The resonant opening lines of Virgil's Aeneid rank among the most famous and consistently recited verses to have been passed down to later ages by antiquity. And after The Odyssey and the Iliad, Virgil's masterpiece is arguably the greatest classical text in the whole of Western literature. This sinuous and richly characterised epic vitally influenced th poetry of Dante, Petrarch and Milton. The doomed love of Dido and Aeneas inspired Purcell, while for T.S. Eliot Virgil's poem was 'the classic of all Europe'. The poet's stirring tale of a refugee Trojan prince, 'torn from Libyan waves' to found a new homeland in Italy, has provided much fertile material for writings on colonialism and for discourses of ethic and national identity. The Aeneid has even been viewed as a template and source of justification for British and European imperialisms and for American nation-building. In his major and much anticipated new book Philip Hardie explores the many remarkable afterlives- ancient, medieval and modern- of the Aeneid in literature, music, politics, the visual arts and film. The Last Trojan Hero, by one of Virgil's leading interpreters, put continually fresh and surprising perspectives on one of the outstanding works of civilization. Placing the Aeneid on a broad artistic and historical canvas, it shows with elegance, originality and creative insight how and in what ways this remarkably durable text continues so powerfully to capture the cultural imagination and why it still speaks to us over a gulf of centuries.
Author : L. B. T. Houghton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 48,5 MB
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1108499929
This pioneering study reveals the central place held by Virgil's 'messianic' Eclogue in the art and literature of Renaissance Italy.
Author : Matthew Day
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 17,55 MB
Release : 2023-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0192871137
English Humanism and the Reception of Virgil c. 1400-1550 reassesses how the spread of Renaissance humanism in England impacted the reception of Virgil. It begins with the first signs of humanist influence in the fifteenth century, and ends at the height of the English Renaissance during the mid-Tudor period. This period witnessed the first extant English translations of Virgil's Aeneid, by William Caxton (1490), Gavin Douglas (1513), and the Earl of Surrey (c. 1543). It also marked the first printings of Virgil's works in England by Richard Pynson (c. 1515) and Wynkyn de Worde (1510s-1520s). Through a fine-grained analysis of surviving manuscripts and early printed editions, Matthew Day questions how and to what extent Renaissance humanism impacted readers' and translators' approaches to Virgil. Building on current scholarship in the fields of book history, classical reception, and translation studies, it draws attention to substantial continuities between the medieval and humanist reception of Virgil's works. Humanist study of Virgil, and indeed of classical poetry more generally, continued to draw many of its aims, methods, and conventions from well-established medieval traditions of learning. In emphasizing the very gradual pace of humanist development and the continuous influence of medieval scholarship, the book comes to a more qualified view of how humanism did and (just as importantly) did not affect Virgilian reading and translation. While recognizing humanist innovations and discoveries, it gives due attention to the understudied, yet far more numerous examples of consistency and traditionalism.
Author : Sheldon Brammall
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 19,8 MB
Release : 2015-06-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748699090
This book covers the period from the beginning of Elizabeth's reign to the start of the English Civil War, during which time there were thirteen authors who composed substantial translations of Virgil's epic.
Author : Andrew Wallace
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 23,87 MB
Release : 2010-11-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199591245
An examination of the ways in which Virgil's poems were received and employed in the schoolrooms of 16th- and 17th-century England. Andrew Wallace argues that the Roman poet is an original theorist of the nature and mechanics of instruction.
Author : Philip Hardie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 30,79 MB
Release : 1998-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199223428
Virgil by Philip Hardie revisits the topics of the first New Survey in the Classics published in 1967. This latest Survey explores how literary approaches have changed over the last thirty years, with individual chapters on Ecloques, Georgics and The Aenid, and style.
Author : Andrew Escobedo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 44,34 MB
Release : 2016-10-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1316869873
Edmund Spenser's poetry remains an indispensable touchstone of English literary history. Yet for modern readers his deliberate use of archaic language and his allegorical mode of writing can become barriers to understanding his poetry. This volume of thirty-seven essays, written by distinguished scholars, offers a rich introduction to the literary, political and religious contexts that shaped Spenser's poetry, including the environment in which he lived, the genres he drew upon, and the influences that helped to fashion his art. The collection reveals the multiple personae that Spenser constructs within his work: to read Spenser is to read a rich archive of literary forms, and this volume provides the contexts in which to do so. A reading list at the end of the volume will prove invaluable to further study.