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The Georgics of Virgil: a critical survey

by Wilkinson, L. P. Published by : Cambridge U.P., (London,) Physical details: xii, 364 pages 23 cm ISBN:0521074509; 9780521074506; 0521293235; 9780521293235.
Subject(s): Virgil. -- Georgica. | Didactic poetry, Latin -- History and criticism. | Agriculture in literature. | Rome -- In literature. | Virgile -- Georgica. | Georgica (Virgil) | Agriculture in literature. | Didactic poetry, Latin. | Literature. | Rome (Empire) | Georgica (Vergilius) | Virgile (0070-0019 av. J.-C.). -- Georgica. | Virgile, -- (0070-0019 av. J.-C.) -- Critique et interpr�etation. | Poetry in Latin -- Virgil -- Georgics Critical studies | Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Year: 1969
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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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