The Georgics of Virgil: a critical survey
Published by : Cambridge U.P., (London,) Physical details: xii, 364 pages 23 cm ISBN:0521074509; 9780521074506; 0521293235; 9780521293235.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references.
In the author's view, the 'Georgics' is far from being tediously didactic; on the contrary, it is vividly descriptive, the first poem in all literature in which description is the chief source of pleasure, a poem written not so much to teach farmers as to delight readers. And it is more than simply this. It is concerned with a way of life, it is infused with deep personal feeling and philosophical purpose, and it is overlaid with a rich texture of religious, political and symbolic motifs. This book is a critical analysis of the poem in all these dimensions.
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