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Latin Epic and Didactic Poetry
Monica R. Gale (Ed.)
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How is it possible for a poet to find his own individual voice, when he is writing in a tradition so venerable and so constrained by convention as Roman epic? How do poets working in related genres - particularly didactic - conceptualize their relationship to the main epic tradition? The eleven essays in this volume, by leading scholars in the field of Roman poetry and its post-Classical receptions, consider some of the strategies which writers from Lucretius onwards have employed in negotiating their relationship with their literary forebears, and staking out a place for their own work within a tradition ... Read more
How is it possible for a poet to find his own individual voice, when he is writing in a tradition so venerable and so constrained by convention as Roman epic? How do poets working in related genres - particularly didactic - conceptualize their relationship to the main epic tradition? The eleven essays in this volume, by leading scholars in the field of Roman poetry and its post-Classical receptions, consider some of the strategies which writers from Lucretius onwards have employed in negotiating their relationship with their literary forebears, and staking out a place for their own work within a tradition ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Classical Press of Wales United Kingdom
Number of pages
262
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
262
Place of Publication
Swansea, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780954384562
SKU
V9780954384562
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