The Chaonian Dove

Author : A.J. Boyle
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004328297
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chaonian Dove written by A.J. Boyle and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length critical study of the three Virgilian works to be published in English for twenty years. It examines in detail the thematic design and intent of the Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid, and documents the development of their political, moral and poetic pessimism. It presents the interrelationship of the three texts, their intertextuality, as integral to their meaning. The book is in three main parts - 'Pastoral Meditation', 'Didactic Paradox', 'Epic Vision' - corresponding to the three Virgilian works. A brief introductory chapter is concerned with questions of method and the problem of Virgil misread. A chief focus of the book is Virgil's preoccupation with the relationship between poetry, art - art's values, perceptions, visions - and the political/historical world, and the changing nature of Virgil's attitude to the socio-moral responsibilities of Rome. The evolution of Vergil's presentation both of Roman imperium and of man's place in nature and history is carefully delineated. With close scrutiny of the language, imagery, structures and design of the three texts and of their verbal and thematic interrelationship, the book offers a substantial reassessment of the major political, psychological and moral ideas of Virgil's poetic oeuvre. An intricate and persuasive picture emerges of Virgil's intellectual and poetic development and a radically new conception of Virgil's image of himself as poet. The provision of translations makes the book accessible to the Latinless reader.

Author : Rebecca Armstrong
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192524216
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vergil's Green Thoughts written by Rebecca Armstrong and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-18 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid abound with plants, yet much Vergilian criticism underestimates their significance beyond attractive background detail or the occasional symbolic set-piece. This volume joins the growing field of nature-centred studies of literature, looking head-on at Vergil's plants and trees to reveal how fundamental they are to an understanding of the poet's outlook on religion, culture, and mankind's place within the world. Divided into two parts, the first explores the religious and more diffusely numinous aspects of Vergil's plants, from awe-inspiring sacred groves to divinely promoted fields of corn, and shows how both cultivated and uncultivated plants fit within and help to shape the complex landscape of Vergilian (and, more broadly, Roman) religious thought. In the second half of the book, the focus shifts towards human interactions with plants from the perspectives of both cultivation and relaxation, exploring the love-hate relationship with vegetation which sometimes supports and sometimes contests the human self-image as the world's dominant species. Combining a series of close readings of a wide range of passages with the identification of broader patterns of association, Vergil's Green Thoughts appositely reveals and celebrates the complexity and variety of Vergilian flora.

Author : Patrick Cheney
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487596472
Total Pages : 603 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spenser's Famous Flight written by Patrick Cheney and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1993-12-15 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Spenser's famous Flight, Patrick Cheney challenges the received wisdom about the shape and goal of Spenser's literary career. He contends that Spenser's idea of a literary career is not strictly the convential Virgilian pattern of pastoral to epic, but a Christian revision of that pattern in light of Petrarch and the Reformation. Cheney demonstrates that, far from changing his mind about his career as a result of disillusionment, Spenser embarks upon and completes a daring progress that secures his status as an Orphic poet. In October, Spenser calls his idea of a literary career the 'famous flight.' Both classical and Christian culture has authorized the myth of the winged poet as a primary myth of fame and glory. Cheney shows that throughout his poetry Spenser relies on an image of flight to accomplish his highest goal.

Author : Ovid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ovid's Art of Love. In Three Books. Together with His Remedy of Love. Translated Into English Verse by Several Eminent Hands [J. Dryden, W. Congreve and N. Tate]. To which are Added The Court of Love, a Tale from Chaucer [by A. Maynwaring], and the History of Love (by C. Hopkins). Adorn'd with Cuts written by Ovid and published by . This book was released on 1709 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ovid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ovid's Art of Love, in Three Books written by Ovid and published by . This book was released on 1725 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ovid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
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Download or read book Ovid's Art of Love written by Ovid and published by . This book was released on 1747 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ovid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
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Download or read book Ovid's Art of Love. In three books. Translated by Mr. Dryden, Mr. Congreve, &c. Together with the Remedy of Love, etc written by Ovid and published by . This book was released on 1712 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ovid
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
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Download or read book Ovid's Art of Love ... Together with His Remedy of Love. Tanslated [sic] Into English Verse by Several Eminent Hands [i.e. John Dryden, William Congreve and Nahum Tate]. To which are Added, The Court of Love, a Tale from Chaucer [paraphrased by Arthur Maynwaring]. And The History of Love (by Mr. Charles Hopkins). The Second Edition written by Ovid and published by . This book was released on 1716 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ovid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ovid's Art of Love, in three books. Together with his Remedy of Love. Translated ... by several eminent hands John Dryden, William Congreve and Nahum Tate . To which are added, The Court of Love. A tale from Chaucer by Arthur Maynwaring : and the History of Love by Charles Hopkins , adorn'd with cutts written by Ovid and published by . This book was released on 1735 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Todd A. Borlik
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136741798
Total Pages : 292 pages
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Download or read book Ecocriticism and Early Modern English Literature written by Todd A. Borlik and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-05-11 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this timely new study, Borlik reveals the surprisingly rich potential for the emergent "green" criticism to yield fresh insights into early modern English literature. Deftly avoiding the anachronistic casting of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century authors as modern environmentalists, he argues that environmental issues, such as nature’s personhood, deforestation, energy use, air quality, climate change, and animal sentience, are formative concerns in many early modern texts. The readings infuse a new urgency in familiar works by Shakespeare, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Ralegh, Jonson, Donne, and Milton. At the same time, the book forecasts how ecocriticism will bolster the reputation of less canonical authors like Drayton, Wroth, Bruno, Gascoigne, and Cavendish. Its chapters trace provocative affinities between topics such as Pythagorean ecology and the Gaia hypothesis, Ovidian tropes and green phenomenology, the disenchantment of Nature and the Little Ice Age, and early modern pastoral poetry and modern environmental ethics. It also examines the ecological onus of Renaissance poetics, while showcasing how the Elizabethans’ sense of a sophisticated interplay between nature and art can provide a precedent for ecocriticism’s current understanding of the relationship between nature and culture as "mutually constructive." Situating plays and poems alongside an eclectic array of secondary sources, including herbals, forestry laws, husbandry manuals, almanacs, and philosophical treatises on politics and ethics, Borlik demonstrates that Elizabethan and Jacobean authors were very much aware of, and concerned about, the impact of human beings on their natural surroundings.