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

Name: Virgil's Experience
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780198140337
Price: 42250 KES
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ISBN: 9780198140337

by Richard Jenkyns

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 0198140339

ISBN-13 9780198140337

Publisher Oxford University Press

Imprint Oxford University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Nov 26th, 1998

Print length 726 Pages

Weight 1,226 grams

Dimensions 16.50 x 24.10 x 4.80 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval Literary studies: poetry & poets

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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.

This book studies Virgil''s ideas of nature, history, sense of nation, and sense of identity. It is exact and patient in its probing for nuance and detail, but also bold, wide, and original in its scope. It combines the study of Virgil with the study of attitudes to 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 BC 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.

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