Aeneid

Aeneid PDF Author: Virgil
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486113973
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 259

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Monumental epic poem tells the heroic story of Aeneas, a Trojan who escaped the burning ruins of Troy to found Lavinium, the parent city of Rome, in the west.

Aeneid

Aeneid PDF Author: Virgil
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486113973
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 259

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Monumental epic poem tells the heroic story of Aeneas, a Trojan who escaped the burning ruins of Troy to found Lavinium, the parent city of Rome, in the west.

The Works of John Dryden: Life

The Works of John Dryden: Life PDF Author: John Dryden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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The Works

The Works PDF Author: Publius Vergilius Maro
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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"Arms, and the Man I sing . . ."

Author: Arvid Løsnes
Publisher: University of Delaware
ISBN: 1611490030
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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This study referred to as a "preface" is given this designation because its basic aim is not to offer an up-to-date overall assessment of Dryden's translation of Virgil's Æneid but, rather, to provide a relevant basis for such an assessment ?thus allowing for a wide range of readership. The relevance of this approach rests on two basic premises: that of R. A. Brower, who maintains "that no translation can be understood or properly evaluated apart from the conditions of expression under which it was made," supported by Dryden's expressed intention "to make Virgil speak such English, as he wou'd himself have spoken, if he had been born in England, and in this present age," together providing a genuinely relevant basis for an understanding of Dryden's translation, "the conditions of expression" here allowing the inclusion of all the possible implications this phrase includes.

The Works of John Dryden, Volume VI

The Works of John Dryden, Volume VI PDF Author: John Dryden
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520905261
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 654

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Volumes V and VI concern Dryden's most involved labor: the complete translation of Virgil into English. Volume VI contains books 7-12 of The Aeneid, as well as commentary and textual notes to the full works of Virgil translated in these two volumes.

The Georgics of Virgil

The Georgics of Virgil PDF Author: David Ferry
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466895063
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 135

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John Dryden called Virgil's Georgics, written between 37 and 30 B.C.E., "the best poem by the best poet." The poem, newly translated by the poet and translator David Ferry, is one of the great songs, maybe the greatest we have, of human accomplishment in difficult--and beautiful--circumstances, and in the context of all we share in nature. The Georgics celebrates the crops, trees, and animals, and, above all, the human beings who care for them. It takes the form of teaching about this care: the tilling of fields, the tending of vines, the raising of the cattle and the bees. There's joy in the detail of Virgil's descriptions of work well done, and ecstatic joy in his praise of the very life of things, and passionate commiseration too, because of the vulnerability of men and all other creatures, with all they have to contend with: storms, and plagues, and wars, and all mischance. As Rosanna Warren noted about Ferry's work in The Threepenny Review, "We finally have an English Horace whose rhythmical subtlety and variety do justice to the Latin poet's own inventiveness, in which emotion rises from the motion of the verse . . . To sense the achievement, one has to read the collection as a whole . . . and they can take one's breath away even as they continue breathing." This ebook edition includes only the English language translation of the Georgics.

Aeneid 2

Aeneid 2 PDF Author: Randall Toth Ganiban
Publisher: Focus Vergil Aeneid Commentaries
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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This book is part of a series of individual volumes covering Books 1-6 of Vergil's Aeneid. Each book will include an introduction, notes, bibliography, commentary and glossary, and be edited by an expert in the field. These individual volumes will form a combined Vol 1-6 book as well.

The Works of Virgil Translated by John Dryden

The Works of Virgil Translated by John Dryden PDF Author:
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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Virgil as Orpheus

Virgil as Orpheus PDF Author: M. Owen Lee
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791427842
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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Presents a popular introduction to Virgil's Georgics for the general reader.

Virgil and the Augustan Reception

Virgil and the Augustan Reception PDF Author: Richard F. Thomas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139433512
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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This book is an examination of the ideological reception of Virgil at specific moments in the last two millennia. The author focuses on the emperor Augustus in the poetry of Virgil, detects in the poets and grammarians of antiquity alternately a collaborative oppositional reading and an attempt to suppress such reading, studies creative translation (particularly Dryden's), which reasserts the 'Augustan' Virgil, and examines naive translation which can be truer to the spirit of Virgil. Scrutiny of 'textual cleansing', philology's rewriting or excision of troubling readings, leads to readings by both supporters and opponents of fascism and National Socialism to support or subvert the latter-day Augustus. The book ends with a diachronic examination of the ways successive ages have tried to make the Aeneid conform to their upbeat expectations of this poet.