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

Author: Richard Jenkyns - Richard - Jenkyns
ISBN 10: 0198140339
ISBN 13: 9780198140337
Release: 1999-02-18
Format: Hardcover (728 pages)
List Price: $275.00
Tags: Literature & Fiction, World Literature, United States,
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This book studies Virgil's ideas of nature, history, sense of nation, and sense of identity, combined with the study of attitudes towards 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 B.C. 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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