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

    Virgil's Experience by Jenkyns, Richard;

    Nature and History: Times, Names, and Places

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    Product details:

    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 26 November 1998

    • ISBN 9780198140337
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages726 pages
    • Size 242x165x45 mm
    • Weight 1296 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    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.

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    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.

    The first unified interpretive account of Vergil's complete oeuvre in over twenty years

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