The Other Virgil : `Pessimistic' Readings of the Aeneid in Early Modern Culture
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Classical Presences
ISBN-10
0199212368
ISBN-13
9780199212361
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 18th, 2007
Print length
272 Pages
Weight
494 grams
Dimensions
21.60 x 14.80 x 2.00 cms
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The story of how the Aeneid has been approached by various postclassical authors - including Shakespeare and Milton - not as an endorsement of the ideals of their societies, but as a model for poems that probed and challenged dominant values, just as Virgil himself had done centuries before.
The Other Virgil tells the story of how a classic like the Aeneid can say different things to different people. As a school text it was generally taught to support the values and ideals of a succession of postclassical societies, but between 1500 and 1800 a number of unusually sensitive readers responded to cues in the text that call into question what the poem appears to be supporting. This book focuses on the literary works written by these readers, to show how they used the Aeneid as a model for poems that probed and challenged the dominant values of their society, just as Virgil had done centuries before. Some of these poems are not as well known today as they should be, but others, like Milton''s Paradise Lost and Shakespeare''s The Tempest, are; in the latter case, the poems can be understood in new ways once their relationship to the ''other Virgil'' is made clear.
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