Why Vergil? : A Collection of Interpretations

by Quinn, Stephanie; Putnam, Michael C. J.; Quinn, Stephanie

• ISBN13: 9780865164185
• ISBN10: 0865164185
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: Bolchazy Carducci Pub

Summary

An anthology of 43 classic essays and poems on the Roman poet. Quinn's position is that his work continues to be compelling and flexible enough to support a wide range of interpretations and perspectives. In addition to a bibliography, she provides a lengthy introduction and conclusion that tackle the question of the book's title, Why Vergil? Further, she juxtaposes the first few lines of the Aeneid in its original Latin with five translations, and includes a synopsis of it and a list of dates for quick reference. She has not indexed the volume.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Preface	xiii
Acknowledgements	xxi
A Few Important Dates	xxv
Part I: The Power of Words and Meaning of Form
Introduction: Why Words?	3	(30)
Stephanie Quinn
Aeneid 1.1-11, Translations; Synopsis of the Aeneid: translations by Dryden, Mandelbaum, Copley, Fitzgerald, McCrorie; Synopsis of the Aeneid	33	(9)
Stephanie Quinn
I. Proem, from The Language of Virgil: An Introduction to the Poetry of the Aeneid	42	(4)
Daniel H. Garrison
Onomatopoetic Alliteration in Vergil's Aeneid	46	(6)
Edgar C. Reinke
Aeneas' First Act: 1.180-194	52	(13)
Gregory A. Staley
The Serpent and the Flame	65	(15)
Bernard M. W. Knox
The Vergilian Simile as Means of Judgment	80	(10)
Roger A. Hornsby
Dido's Hesitation in Aeneid 4	90	(11)
Charles Segal
The Last Encounter of Dido and Aeneas: Aen. 6.450-476	101	(7)
Marilyn B. Skinner
History and Revelation in Vergil's Underworld	108	(15)
D.C. Feeney
The Aeneid as a Drama of Election	123	(19)
Helen H. Bacon
Golden Numbers. On Nature and Form, from Western Wind. An Introduction to Poetry	142	(6)
John Frederick Nims
The Architecture of the Aeneid	148	(7)
George E. Duckworth
The Two Voices of Virgil's Aeneid	155	(13)
Adam Parry
Introduction, Chapter Five. `No, Virgil, No': The Battle of Actium on the Shield of Aeneas, from Actium and Augustus: The Politics and Emotions of the Civil War	168	(17)
Robert Gurval
Chapter 2. Grieving Mothers and the Costs of Attachment, from Public and Private in Vergil's Aeneid	185	(10)
Susan Ford Wiltshire
The Tenth Book of the Aeneid	195	(12)
Herbert W. Benario
The Sons of Iasus and the End of the Aeneid	207	(4)
M. Owen Lee
Desecration and Expiation as a Theme in the Aeneid	211	(9)
Gerald J. Petter
Daedalus, Virgil, and the End of Art	220	(23)
Michael C.J. Putnam
Part II: The Uses of Tradition and the Making of Meaning
Chapter I. The Mystery of the Aeneid, Chapter III. The Subjective Style, from Virgil: A Study in Civilized Poetry	243	(12)
Brooks Otis
The Lyric Genius of the Aeneid	255	(12)
Michael C.J. Putnam
Introduction, from Pastoral and Ideology: Virgil to Valery	267	(8)
Annabel Patterson
On the Surface of the Georgics	275	(10)
William W. Batstone
Homage to Virgil	285	(9)
Charles Fantazzi
Introduction, from The Poetry of Allusion: Virgil and Ovid in Dante's Commedia	294	(3)
Rachel Jacoff
Jeffrey T. Schnapp
review of Virgil and the Tempest: The Politics of Imitation	297	(3)
John E. Rexine
Paradise Lost as Encyclopedic Epic: The Uses of Literary Forms, from Paradise Lost and the Rhetoric of Literary Forms	300	(7)
Barbara Kiefer Lewalski
Presidential Address, 1992: Cultural Fictions and Cultural Identity	307	(9)
Erich S. Gruen
The Americanization of Vergil, from Colonial Times to 1882	316	(9)
Meyer Reinhold
To Maecenas, from The Poems of Phillis Wheatley	325	(2)
Phillis Wheatley
Chapter 1, Eliot's Myth and Vergil's Fictions, from Darkness Visible: A Study of Vergil's Aeneid	327	(16)
W. R. Johnson
Some Twentieth-Century Heirs: Poetry and Power	343	(58)
Build Soil -- A Political Pastoral, from The Poetry of Robert Frost	345	(7)
Robert Frost
Eclogue IV: Winter, from To Urania	352	(6)
Joseph Brodsky
Vergilian Modes in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing	358	(4)
Dana L. Burgess
Dedicatory Stanzas. To Stephen Spender, from The Georgics of Virgil	362	(2)
C. Day Lewis
Aeneas at Washington, from Collected Poems 1919-1976	364	(2)
Allen Tate
Two Tramps in Mud Time, from The Poetry of Robert Frost	366	(2)
Robert Frost
The Shield of Achilles, from W. H. Auden: Collected Poems	368	(2)
W. H. Auden
Turnus (Aeneid XII)	370	(1)
Rosanna Warren
For John F. Kennedy His Inauguration, from The Poetry of Robert Frost	371	(2)
Robert Frost
Omeros	373	(9)
Derek Walcott
The Death of Virgil, Jean Starr Untermeyer, trans	382	(5)
Hermann Broch
Art and the Hero: Participation, Detachment and Narrative Point of View in Aeneid 1	387	(14)
Charles Segal
Conclusion: Why Vergil	401	(44)
Bibliography	445