| Death and Rebirth in Virgil's Arcadia Contributor(s): Lee, M. Owen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791400166 ISBN-13: 9780791400166 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 1989 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Ancient & Classical - Biography & Autobiography | Political |
| Dewey: 871.01 |
| LCCN: 88024824 |
| Series: Suny Series in Philosophy and Biology |
| Physical Information: 140 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Death and Rebirth in Virgil's Arcadia is an introduction to the Eclogues, based on sound scholarship but also personally felt and addressed to a popular audience. It outlines clearly the literary and historical background of Virgil's early poems, discusses each eclogue in some detail, and offers a new and challenging interpretation of the collection as a whole. The ten eclogues are shown to be a young poet's attempt at self-understanding. Their symmetrical arrangement is a journey inward toward the central experience of death, and a journey back toward rebirth and the writing of larger and greater works. |