Author: Virgil
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Languages : en
Pages : 828

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Author: Virgil
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 890

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Author: Virgil
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520267656
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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"David Slavitt is the most fluent and imaginative translator of Latin verse working today, and this collection of Virgilian poems testifies to his skill, sensitivity, and wit. Slavitt brings to this odd and little-known body of verse a real voice. Whether or not the poems are Virgil's is, in the end, less important than the fact that, by the end of this book, these poems have become truly Slavitt's." —Seth Lerer, Dean of Arts and Humanities at the University of California at San Diego "Slavitt has an established, unique, and appealing voice. He does an excellent job catching the tone and style of the originals, and these are readable and entertaining interpretations of the Latin." —Daniel Berman, author of Myth and Culture in Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes “Light-hearted poems, some obscene, some studies in vitriol, a miniature epic about a gnat, a recipe for a salad that gave the United States its motto, e pluribus unum—these are poems that have come down to us under the name of great Virgil. David Slavitt’s free versions bring them to life, capturing their wit and flair. They are a joy to read, not least for revealing a cheerier side of ancient Rome.” —David Konstan, author of The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks: Studies in Aristotle and Classical Literature

Author: Virgil
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Languages : en
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Author: David Lau
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520258746
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 81

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"Virgil and the Mountain Cat, David Lau's first book of poems, evokes the shattering of Western civilization (not its collapse, but the tense, apprehensive moment before the cracked vessel falls apart). What commanded trust now provokes a nihilistic retaliatory mischief-making poetic language, in which the only redemptive element, if there is one, is what Alain Badiou calls the 'engine' of excess in the greatest 20th century art, excess of the kind that allows for change, a revolution. Lau's high-voltage language is a measure of the passion of (and for) belief that has been lost. Lau is a remarkable young poet."—Calvin Bedient, author of Candy Necklace "It's after the end of the world, and David Lau is our last first poet of the future past. When words have nowhere left to go, they need a new Virgil to guide them sideways in time, to where they can become ferociously fractal as the cry of a mountain cat. The microtonal resistances of Lau's language both remove and remotivate meaning: what the poet 'saw was raw war.' David Lau's work enacts a great refusal that lights fuses beneath the psycho-political dome."—Andrew Joron, author of The Sound Mirror "The scary accomplishment of Virgil and the Mountain Cat is to remind a reader that poetry has the capacity to disturb, rather than calm, one's nervous system. Lau's poems are knowing and proficient and care nothing for your feelings. Punk in its spirit, sure to prove alienating to most readers over thirty, and spoken from a place deep 'inside the annotations,' this book is an unforgiving glimpse of the horizonless present."—Mark Levine, author of The Wilds

Author: Virgil
Publisher:
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Category : Latin poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 490

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Author: Virgil
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 824

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Author: Virgil
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Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Author: Charles Martindale
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521498852
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Virgil became a school author in his own lifetime and the centre of the Western canon for the next 1800 years, exerting a major influence on European literature, art, and politics. This Companion is designed as an indispensable guide for anyone seeking a fuller understanding of an author critical to so many disciplines. It consists of essays by seventeen scholars from Britain, the USA, Ireland and Italy which offer a range of different perspectives both traditional and innovative on Virgil's works, and a renewed sense of why Virgil matters today. The Companion is divided into four main sections, focussing on reception, genre, context, and form. This ground-breaking book not only provides a wealth of material for an informed reading but also offers sophisticated insights which point to the shape of Virgilian scholarship and criticism to come.

Author: Brooks Otis
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806127828
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 460

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In this classic study, Brooks Otis presents Virgil as a radically different poet from any of his Greek or Roman predecessors. Virgil molded the ancient epic tradition to his own Roman contemporary aims and succeeded in making mythical and legendary figures meaningful to a sophisticated, unmythical age. Otis begins and ends his study with the Aeneid and includes chapters on the Bucolics and the Georgics. A new foreword by Ward W. Briggs, Jr., places Otis’s groundbreaking achievement in the context of past and present Virgilian scholarship.