Description |
1 online resource (xii, 288 pages) |
Contents |
'Tell me, muse' : characteristics of the self-conscious poem -- 'Improbable art' : the theory and practice of ancient didactic poetry -- Ancient views of didactic poetry -- Didactic poetry as a genre -- The development of didactic poetry up to Lucretius -- Perceptions of didactic poetry in the first century BC -- The teacher's truth : Lucretius' De rerum natura -- The teaching speech -- The poem -- Poetry and philosophy -- The poet's choice : Vergil's Georgics -- The farmers and Maecenas -- The poet's career -- The poem's success : Ovid's ars amatoria and remedia amoris -- The praeceptor amoris -- Simultaneity -- Poet and persona -- The song of the stars : Manilius' Astronomica -- The teacher of astrology -- Vates mundi -- The heavenly journey -- Carmen et res |
Summary |
In a revision of her dissertation (from Princeton in 1999), Volk sets out to redeem the neglected genre of didactic poetry by exploring the theory of poetics found in five such texts: Lucretius' De rerum natura, Virgil's Georgics, Ovid's Ars amatoria, and Remedia amoris, and Manilius' Astronomica. A discussion of the history of the didactic genre and the essential qualities of the didactic poem precede the close reading of the five poems. Volk provides English translation of the longer passages along with the original Latin. c. Book News Inc |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-267) and indexes |
Notes |
Print version record |
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Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Remedia amoris.
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Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Ars amatoria.
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Lucretius Carus, Titus. De rerum natura
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Manilius, Marcus. Astronomicon.
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Virgil. Georgica
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SUBJECT |
Ars amatoria (Ovid) fast (OCoLC)fst01357989 |
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Astronomicon (Manilius, Marcus) fast (OCoLC)fst01363122 |
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De rerum natura (Lucretius Carus, Titus) fast (OCoLC)fst01356043 |
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Georgica (Virgil) fast (OCoLC)fst01356360 |
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Remedia amoris (Ovid) fast (OCoLC)fst01359268 |
Subject |
Didactic poetry, Latin -- History and criticism
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Didactic poetry, Latin.
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780191714986 |
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0191714984 |
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