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Vergil and Elegy (Hardcover)
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Vergil and Elegy (Hardcover)
Series: Phoenix Supplementary Volumes, 60
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Born in 70 BCE, the Roman poet Vergil came of age during a period
of literary experimentalism among Latin authors. These authors
introduced new Greek verse forms and meters into the existing
repertoire of Latin poetic genres and measures, foremost among them
being elegy, a genre that the ancients thought originated in
funeral lament, but which in classical Rome became first-person
poetry about the poet-lover's amatory vicissitudes. Despite the
influence of notable elegists on Vergil's early poetry, his critics
have rarely paid attention to his engagement with the genre across
his body of work. This collection is devoted to an exploration of
Vergil's multifaceted relations with elegy. Contributors shed light
on Vergil's interactions with the genre and its practitioners
across classical, medieval, and early modern periods. The book
investigates Vergil's hexameter poetry in relation to contemporary
Latin elegy by Gallus, Tibullus, and Propertius, and the subsequent
reception of Vergil's radical combination of epic with elegy by
later Latin and Italian authors. Filling a striking gap in the
scholarship, Vergil and Elegy illuminates the famous poet's
wide-ranging engagement with the genre of elegy across his oeuvre.
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