Virgil''s Experience - Nature and History: Times, Names, and Places

Zusatztext The first unified interpretive account of Vergil's complete oeuvre in over twenty years Klappentext This book studies Virgil's ideas of nature, history, sense of nation, and sense of identity, combined with the study of attitudes towards 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 B.C. 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. Zusammenfassung This book is about Virgil's ideas of nature, landscape, history, and patriotism. It is also concerned with ideas of nature throughout antiquity and with the poetry and culture of the 1st century BC as a whole. It combines a close reading of Virgil's texts with a broad vision of the revolution in Western sensibility they helped to effect.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Jenkyns
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.1998
• EAN: 9780198140337
• ISBN: 978-0-19-814033-7
• No. of pages: 726
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Rome, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets