| Description |
1 online resource (273 pages) |
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Contents; 1. Introduction: Generic Groundwork; 2. Beyond Pastoral? Generic Pressures in Vergil's Eclogues; 3. Ambition to Rise: Horace, Satires1; 4. On Not Being Archilochus: Horace's Epodes; 5. Intra-Epic Debate: Vergil's Georgics; 6. Lyric Flexibility: Literary Form in Horace's Odes; 7. Epic Inclusivity: Vergil's Aeneid; Bibliography; Index locorum; General Index |
| Summary |
S.J. Harrison sets out to sketch one answer to a key question in Latin literary history: why did the period c.39-19 BC in Rome produce such a rich range of complex poetical texts, above all in the work of the famous poets Vergil and Horace? Harrison argues that one central aspect of this literary flourishing was the way in which different poetic genres or kinds (pastoral, epic, tragedy, etc.) interacted with each other and that that interaction itself was a prominent literarysubject. He explores this issue closely through detailed analysis of passages of the two poets' works between these dat |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Horace -- Criticism and interpretation
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Virgil -- Criticism and interpretation
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Virgil fast |
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Horace fast |
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Epic poetry, Latin -- History and criticism
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Latin poetry -- History and criticism
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Literary form.
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Literature.
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Literature
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Epic poetry, Latin
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Latin poetry
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Literary form
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Literature
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191525292 |
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0191525294 |
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9780191708176 |
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0191708178 |
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9780199203581 |
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019920358X |
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