{"product_id":"virgil-hardcover","title":"Virgil - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlison Keith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRichard Stoneman\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe works of Virgil (70-19 BCE) define the 'golden age' of Latin poetry and have inspired a long tradition of interpretation and adaptation that starts in his own time and extends to important modern authors. His ascent from the lesser genre of pastoral (the \u003ci\u003eBucolics\u003c\/i\u003e) through a more ambitious didactic mode (the \u003ci\u003eGeorgics\u003c\/i\u003e) to the soaring heights of epic (the incomparable \u003ci\u003eAeneid\u003c\/i\u003e) shaped the canonical writings of other authors, from his younger contemporary Ovid through the medieval writers Dante and Petrarch to the early modern poets Spenser and Milton and well beyond. Virgil, as Alison Keith shows, has never gone out of critical or popular fashion. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This wide-ranging introduction appraises a figure of central importance in the history of Western music, art and literature. Offering close readings of the \u003ci\u003eBucolics\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGeorgics\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAeneid\u003c\/i\u003e, Keith places Virgil and his poetry in historical context before tracing their impact at key moments in the culture of the West. Emphasis is placed on Virgil's reception of the classical literary and philosophical traditions, and on how his poetry has attracted modern interest from writers as diverse as T. S. Eliot and Ursula K. Le Guin.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlison Keith\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Classics at the University of Toronto, Canada. Her books include \u003ci\u003eThe Play of Fictions: Studies in Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 2 \u003c\/i\u003e(1992), \u003ci\u003eEngendering Rome: Women in Latin Epic\u003c\/i\u003e (2000) and \u003ci\u003ePropertius, Poet of Love and Leisure\u003c\/i\u003e (2008).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 12, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42712952307775,"sku":"9781848859197","price":205.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/eddf9c5fb0e323d4cf05e18625344933.webp?v=1765062924","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/virgil-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}