This ground-breaking and authoritative volume is an indispensable reference book to accompany the study of Virgil. It is a multi-authored guide aimed at students and anyone with an interest in great literature and the classical heritage. The chapters contain essential information while also offering fresh and original insights into the poems and their author. Emphasis is given to the responses to Virgil over the centuries, particularly by other creative artists.
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"One of the...qualities of this book is its general commitment to newer critical modalities and sometimes bracingly fresh critical sensitivities." Dan Hooley, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
"An accessible and up-to-date picture of the state of Virgilian studies." Margaret Worsham Musgrove, Religious Studies Review
"An accessible and up-to-date picture of the state of Virgilian studies." Margaret Worsham Musgrove, Religious Studies Review
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This ground-breaking and authoritative volume is an indispensable reference book to accompany the study of Virgil. It is a multi-authored guide aimed at students and anyone with an interest in great literature and the classical heritage. The chapters contain essential information while also offering fresh and original insights into the poems and their author. Emphasis is given to the responses to Virgil over the centuries, particularly by other creative artists.
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Hard for general reader: too technical & theoretical.,
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This review is from: The Cambridge Companion to Virgil (Cambridge Companions to Literature) (Hardcover)
General readers may well be confused & misled by the introduction to this book, which indulges in what is known as "reception theory": according to this theory, Virgil's reception by readers through the ages has been marked by partiality & bias, which the present editor sets out to expose. He forgets that he, too, is a reader with an outlook rooted in a specific (our own) time. His own limitations as a reader become apparent when he produces a confused & reductive essay on Virgil's first major work, The Book of Bucolics (also known as eclogues) -- a source for the tradition of pastoral poetry in the West. Other scholars will no doubt find other essays to praise or blame in such a wide range, but no one, I think, will admire the theoretical posturing & self-involvement of the editorial frame. Those wishing a fuller discussion of issues raised by this book may reach me at the appended address.
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This so-called Companion to Virgil offers little to students of the poet, and certainly nothing to general or curious readers. Very plainly, this volume is completely animated with theory--theories which are neither just to Virgil nor compatible to the Virgilian tradition. This "companion" is ultra-modern in approach, so it is anachronistic in effect. Virgil, his devotees, his commentators, his imitators, and his worthy translators, would not comprehend, nor desire to comprehend, the methods strewn through the pages of this volume. Read Virgil in isolation from this book, and with the reverence that is his due; and if this is not sufficient, then seek the guidance of the ancients or that of their successors, the Humanists.
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'Virgil' does not just denote the 13,000 or so lines of verse which are now usually attributed to the poet who is believed to have lived between 70 and 19 BC: the word also connotes all the interpretations which have accreted around those lines over the past two thousands years. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
imperium sine fine, providential aspect, first eclogue, bucolic world, triple triumph, tragic models, teleological narrative, love elegy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Virgil's Aeneid, Book of Virgil, Vergil's Aeneid, Julius Caesar, Aeneid Book, New York, Augustan Rome, Charles Martindale, Classical Philology, Jackson Knight, Paradise Lost, Philip Hardie, Virgil's Georgics, Harvard Studies, Oxford Readings, Second Eclogue, Vatican Library, Virgil Society, Dryden's Virgil, Pietro da Cortona, Roman Virgil, Virgil's Augustan Epic, Asinius Pollio, Classical Quarterly, Dante's Virgil New!
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'Virgil' does not just denote the 13,000 or so lines of verse which are now usually attributed to the poet who is believed to have lived between 70 and 19 BC: the word also connotes all the interpretations which have accreted around those lines over the past two thousands years. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
imperium sine fine, providential aspect, first eclogue, bucolic world, triple triumph, tragic models, teleological narrative, love elegy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Virgil's Aeneid, Book of Virgil, Vergil's Aeneid, Julius Caesar, Aeneid Book, New York, Augustan Rome, Charles Martindale, Classical Philology, Jackson Knight, Paradise Lost, Philip Hardie, Virgil's Georgics, Harvard Studies, Oxford Readings, Second Eclogue, Vatican Library, Virgil Society, Dryden's Virgil, Pietro da Cortona, Roman Virgil, Virgil's Augustan Epic, Asinius Pollio, Classical Quarterly, Dante's Virgil New!
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- The "Eclogues" and "Georgics" (Oxford World's Classics) by Virgil on 9 pages
- Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) by John Milton on 7 pages
- Epic and Empire by David Quint on 5 pages
- Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative by Peter Brooks on 4 pages
- Divine Comedy (Oxford World's Classics) by Dante Alighieri on 4 pages
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- Virgil Recomposed: The Mythological and Secular Centos in Antiquity (American Classical Studies) by Scott McGill on 5 pages
- Latin Literature (Classical Foundations) by Susanna Morton Braund on page 19, page 52, and page 240
- Caesar's Legacy: Civil War and the Emergence of the Roman Empire by Josiah Osgood in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Fifty Key Classical Authors (Fifty Key Thinkers) by Rhiannon Ash on page 27, and page 30
- Virgil: The Aeneid (Landmarks of World Literature (New)) by K. W. Gransden in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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