... horticulture on a cosmic and imperializing scale, cramming in literary allusions to a wide array of authors and over seventy varieties of plants, from cabbages to roses. Columella De Re Rustica Vergil didactic poetry horticulture While the agricultural texts of Cato the Elder, Vergil, and Varro do...

... discusses the different sub-genres of Neo-Latin epic poetry: mythological, historical, Christian poems, supplements and epyllia with corresponding examples. A few examples of didactic poems, often written by the same authors, are also considered. didactic poetry epic poetry Fracastoro Girolamo medicine...

... didactic poetry in a Neopolitan setting. The chapter also discusses Tommaso Strozzi, another Neopolitan Jesuit, who took inspiration from Girolamo Fracastoro's Syphlis. Fracastoro, who was the most famous Renaissance successor of Pontano, had a profound influence on the georgic poetry...

... Marx Karl inscription Freire Paulo Lindstrom Eric Blandford Edward James “Glorious Poverty” Blandford Hörmann Raphael Janowitz Anne Butler Judith temporality The Mask of Anarchy P Shelley transience didactic poetry ecology Lucretius lyric poetry Marxism natural history pedagogy Percy...

... social metaphor Epicurus libera voluntas Lucretius Roman Epicureanism didactic poetry poetics Roman political theory Epicurus Epicurean Epicureanism te sequor, o Graiae gentis decus, inque tuis nunc ficta pedum pono pressis vestigia signis DRN 3.3–4 I follow you, Glory...

... Marsilio mortalism du Bartas Guillaume de Salluste sieur Epicurus Epicureanism sublime the Cicero Lucian ethics Epicurean Horace animals Lactantius Virgil Lucretius neo-Latin didactic poetry Aonio Paleario Marcello Palingenio Stellato Lodovico Parisetti Jr Scipione Capece Giordano Bruno...

... blending of poetic form and philosophical content. didactic intent didactic poetry Effe Bernd Lucretius Ch 3 and passim Arist Lucr 1 1 Empedocles Byron Coleridge Polignac Cardinal Melchior de Jer Ab Abr 1923 teacher student constellation Catull 10 Memmius Pythagoras speech Ov Met Epicurus...

... epigram Philodemus Stoicism body elegy Roman Ennius Ovid Seneca the Younger didactic poetry Epicureanism Lucretius Philodemus satire This chapter will explore some arguments in favor of an unpopular position: that in its original social and literary context Lucretius’s De Rerum Natura...

... didactic poetry poetics Caesarius of Arles sermo humilis Sidonius concluded his literary career with a restatement of his conversion from secular poet to conscientious bishop. His last published letter culminated in a paradoxically poetic affirmation of his renunciation of verse. Yet despite his...

...This is the first dedicated study of the classical-style, Latin didactic poetry produced by the Society of Jesus in the early modern period. The Jesuits were the most prolific composers of such poetry, teaching all manner of arts and sciences: meteorology and magnetism, raising chickens...

... IV is dedicated to Buddhist didactic poetry written in the Mongolian language by two authors who are well known for their efforts in reinforcing the Mongolian Buddhist tradition and spreading it among the common people by writing in the Mongolian language at a time when the Tibetan language dominated...

... forces behind textual display, and fuelled contests and competitions. Didactic poetry is part of this seething rivalry between teachers, influencing the adoption of unusual metres. Poets developed different self-representative strategies against the background of an unstable elite struggling to find...

...From antiquity, to the Middle Ages, to the Renaissance, and to the early modern period, a genre of poetry flourished in the West that has fallen out of favour in the recent times. This is didactic poetry, poetry of instruction in astronomy, hunting, farming, philosophy, and in all fields...

... dominated by individual aims and intentions, Jesuit didactic poetry nevertheless exhibited uniform lineament. Most Jesuit didactic poems were tailored after Virgil's Georgics and the Virgilian form. There were also various mechanisms of internal imitation wherein a group of poems share...

... patronage performance recitatio public reading time Claudian exemplarity mos maiorum Flaccus Valerius Italicus Silius Statius Hardie P Juvenal Narducci E Nelis D Africanus Scipio Callimachus Conte G B Knauer G N Leigh M Hesiod Heslin P J Ovid didactic poetry and epic poetry Empedocles...

... studies to show what is distinctive or innovative about interactions between literature and medicine in the period. The case studies also represent different genres of medical literature, or different genres that became in some sense medicalized: biography, autobiography, drama, didactic poetry, and epic...

...During a period of warfare, nation-building, and complex political involvement with France, when Latin and French literature flourished, English poetry must have thrived in an oral culture largely lost to us. In the extant written record it emerges in three genres: didactic poetry, lyric...

... pathos physico theology republic of letters scientific community Grisogono Federico quadrivium question rhetorical dissemination didactic poetry panegyrical poetry biography oration Because of its mnemotechnical advantages, poetry is an age-old didactic medium, predating in this function...

..., arguing that studying poetry went hand in hand with writing poetry from an early age. As a subject of education, it was viewed as puerile, but it was also an excellent method for didactic purposes. Hence, this chapter investigates the background of didactic poetry, in this period chiefly written...

...This chapter opens with a survey of the few known ancient theoretical approaches to didactic poetry, including Aristotle's verdict that poetry like that of the philosopher Empedocles was not ‘mimetic’ and the view, found in the grammarian Diomedes, that the genre belongs to a type of poetry...