... such as Virgil and Ovid. Hutchinson’s commonplace book, for example, confirms her immersion in Virgil’s poetry and contains substantial extracts from Books Two to Six of John Denham’s translation of Virgil’s Aeneid, largely transcribed by Hutchinson’s hand, as well as a transcription of a translation...

...-West's poem is then described and compared to its literary predecessors in the Classical and eighteenth-century georgic traditions (notably Virgil's Georgics and Thomson's The Seasons), before the author's own protracted process of composition is examined. The many archaic, dialect...

... failed and fulfil the potential he showed to become a latter-day Augustus. Fanshawe’s translations from Virgil and Horace generally provided Charles with ethical guidance regarding the values of moderation and temperance, but elsewhere he gave more specifically political counsel. In his translations...

...This book considers the writers who translated Virgil into English during the civil wars, Interregnum and early years of the Stuart Restoration (c. 1636–c. 1661). It argues that these writers translated and imitated Virgil in order to display and interrogate their political loyalties, articulate...

... Montaigne Michel Priamel Cook A B corpulence Flatus Pope Alexander pregnancy Victoria Alexandria Menos Renascence staircase stairs Stairs of Life Bergson Henri Cubist Eliot George Hera Virgil Wickham Boethius Gould Robert happiness nautical metaphor Phthonos retribution Bast Egypt...

... and the Romanising of the Theocritean style. Virgil is shown to consistently use, modify and refine Greek poetry as he develops his own style. Virgil Eclogues Theocritus Pastoral As pastoral poetry is about shepherds (pastores), we expect it to present an age-old peaceful existence, quite...

...This chapter argues that the epic combines literary invention with characterisation and other literary requirements. Virgil should not be regarded as necessarily himself believing the beliefs he credits to eg Anchises. The Aeneid must be read with the influence of Augustus in mind...

...The presence of Virgil in The Waste Land is at least as pervasive and important as that of Dante. Although the poem has no overarching structure or narrative, it has a world, a geography, a cast of characters, and a sense of human experience that is most like the world of Virgil...

... seventeenth century Ovid poetry translation translation theory Virgil Chaucer Horace John Dryden is nowadays generally thought of by students and general readers of English literature—if he is thought of at all—as a topical satirist, and the poem of his that is most regularly anthologized for student...

...The introduction defines domestic georgic by recovering the precarity—the necessity of constant labor, minute in scale and uncertain in its long-term results, that unites agriculture and housewifery—undergirding the more heroic overtones of Virgil’s Georgics. After providing an overview of how both...

... to the rule of personal advantage dramatized in the vision of Caiaphas, the pontifex crucified and pinned to a bridge in Hell that is crossed by hypocrites. This first chapter, on the ideal bridges of humans, concludes with a discussion of the novel by Hermann Broch about Dante’s guide Virgil on his deathbed...

... events, namely the triumviral land confiscations and subsequent anxiety about property rights in the late 40s bc (as articulated in Virgil Eclogues 1 and 9). amor elegiac elegy love as possessive possessive pronouns Plato Symposium 200a–b land confiscations Triumviral...

... intertextuality memory paramaterial poetry of unease poetry of survival religion taxonomy World War I Rupert Brooke Wilfred Owen Isaac Rosenberg Siegfried Sassoon Charles Hamilton Sorley Homer Horace Virgil This book examines how, in what circumstances, and with what effects four First World War...

... of Horatian phrases and aspects of Horatian structure into other poems. The chapter also demonstrates Owen’s familiarity with Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Virgil’s Aeneid, and Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. Owen Wilfred Birkenhead Institute class...

...0 03 02 1994 Before the Fasti Livia had hardly figured in Augustan poetry. Her name is not invoked at all in the extant works of Ovid’s predecessors, Virgil, Horace, Propertius, or Tibullus, although it is true that Horace had once made a move in that direction. In Ode 3. 14. 1...

...The Chapter is divided into twelve sections, and explores the relationship between Dante’s understanding of his work as expression of pride and his understanding of his work as a form of prayer. In particular, attention is devoted to the question of salvation and to the figure of Virgil. A reading...

... in the city of Rome at the end of antiquity. Proba author of the Cento Rome Peace 1090–93 Cento Jerome Paula aristocrat Virgil De Civitate Dei 1 3 Cento Nuptialis 1 Ausonius Paulo Medea Ep 53 7 De Praescriptione Haereticorum 39 De Claris Mulieribus 95 Adelphius Claudius Celsinus PVR Anicii...

...Looking for underlying drivers to make sense of the present and to foretell the future is a time-tested trick. That is why this chapter (and the book, in various other places) quotes Virgil's Aeneid, a 2000-year-old story about underlying drivers and inevitable trends. Like...

... and division. Lucretius, Virgil's Georgics, Ovid's Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris, and Manilius are looked at in turn; there are implications for Ovid's design. The final myth of Georgics 4 is related to Cicero, De Re Publica...

... of the Gospels by Juvencus is shown to be not simply a slavish imitation of Roman models (chiefly Virgil) but an extended demonstration of the now familiar claim that the gospel makes explicit the truths that were dimly intimated in pagan literature. An appendix summarizes the arguments of Eusebius...