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Virgil

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Description for Virgil Paperback. Series: Understanding Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 134 x 25. .

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.

Product Details

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2019
Series
Understanding Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848859203
SKU
V9781848859203
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Ref
99-10

About Alison Keith
Alison Keith is Professor of Classics at the University of Toronto, Canada. Her books include The Play of Fictions: Studies in Ovid’s Metamorphoses Book 2 (1992), Engendering Rome: Women in Latin Epic (2000) and Propertius, Poet of Love and Leisure (2008).

Reviews for Virgil
Very good and worth recommending both to students and other readers, who are only just starting their adventure with Virgil.
Electrum
An excellent resource for students ... This book will be a valuable addition to introductory bibliographies on Latin literature and a useful tool for non-Classicists who are interested in studying Virgil for the first time.
The Classical Review
Will give keys to understanding Virgil's poems to any layman interested in the classical world.
Revue des Etudes Anciennes (trans. by Bloomsbury Academic)
Alison Keith’s Virgil is an authoritative and highly readable introduction to the poet, his poems, and their afterlife. Full of fresh insights, especially on philosophical ideas in Virgil, it also guides the reader to some of the most relevant scholarship.
Fiachra Mac Góráin, Associate Professor of Classics, University College London, UK

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