The Other Virgil
`Pessimistic' Readings of the Aeneid in Early Modern Culture (Classical Presences)
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Word Count
70,000 words, Guess
Page Count
280 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- ISBN-100199212368
- ISBN-139780199212361
- Goodreads366110
- LibraryThing7110222
- Library of Congress Control Number2007023083
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number138342398
- Better World Books9780199212361
- Open LibraryOL10145697M
Classifications
- LCCPA6824
- LCCPA6824 .K35 2007
- DDC873/.01
Description
Tells the story of how a classic like the Aeneid can say different things to different people. As a school text it was generally taught to support the values and ideals of a succession of postclassical societies, but between 1500 and 1800 a number of unusually sensitive readers responded to cues in the text that call into question what the poem appears to be supporting. This book focuses on the literary works written by these readers, to show how they used the Aeneid as a model for poems that probed and challenged the dominant values of their society, just as Virgil had done centuries before. Some of these poems are not as well known today as they should be, but others, like Milton's Paradise Lost and Shakespeare's The Tempest , are; in the latter case, the poems can be understood in new ways once their relationship to the 'other Virgil' is made clear.
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