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9780300083767

Poets and Critics Read Vergil

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  • ISBN13:

    9780300083767

  • ISBN10:

    0300083769

  • Format: Trade Book
  • Copyright: 2001-01-11
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
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Summary

Vergil has exerted a stronger grasp on the poetic imagination and critical scholarship than almost any other poet. This absorbing book -- a collection of essays and conversations by such leading poets and classicists as Joseph Brodsky, Christine Perkell, Michael C. J. Putnam, and Mark Strand -- explores the ways in which Vergil's work has inspired readers of today.

The book takes a broad look at questions of historicism: how we read a work written 2,000 years ago. There are not only close readings of the Aeneid, the Eclogues, and Georgics, but also essays dealing with such topics as Vergil's influence from the Renaissance to the present. The book concludes with two special sections: a lively conversation on translation between Robert Fagles and Sarah Spence and a "virtual" roundtable discussion in which Spence has woven together the responses of poets and critics to Vergil's poetry.

Table of Contents

Note on Text and Translations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: After Grief and Reason: Poets and Critics Read Vergil xiii
Sarah Spence
Part 1 The Frame
Imaginary Romans: Vergil and the Illusion of National Identity
3(16)
W.R. Johnson
Part 2 The Canvas: Readings of Vergil
On Grief and Reason: Two Selections (reprinted from On Grief and Reason: Essays [Farrar Straus Giroux, 1995])
19(7)
Joseph Brodsky
Pastoral Value in Vergil: Some Instances
26(18)
Christine Perkell
Aristaeus, Orpheus, and the Georgics: Once Again
44(20)
Gian Biagio Conte
Some Observations on Aeneid Book VI
64(12)
Mark Strand
Mortal Father, Divine Mother: Aeneid VI and VIII
76(10)
Helen H. Bacon
Vergil's Aeneid: The Final Lines
86(19)
Michael C. J. Putnam
The End of the Aeneid
105(16)
Rosanna Warren
Part 3 The Debate, or Stepping Out of the Frame
The Aeneid Transformed: Illustration as Interpretation from the Renaissance to the Present
121(28)
Craig Kallendorf
not-blank-verse: Surrey's Aeneid Translations and the Prehistory of a Form
149(23)
Stephen Merriam Foley
Vergil Reading Homer Robert Fagles, in conversation with
172(12)
Sarah Spence
Lacrimae rerum: The Influence of Vergil Virtual roundtable, with participation
184(11)
Karl Kirchwey
J. D. McClatchy
Kenneth Haynes
Paul Alpers
Paul A. Cantor
Glenn Most
Margaret Anne Doody
Notes 195(18)
Contributors 213

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