The author, a distinguished classical scholar, sheds new light on
the controversial ending of one of the most acclaimed epic poems in
the Western tradition, Virgil's Aeneid. Examining the savage
rampage upon which Aeneas embarks in the tenth book of the poem,
Putnam traces the sources and manifestations of the hero's
emotions, and concludes with a detailed reading of the poem's
closing lines. An epilogue surveys the relationship between
Virgil's denouement and aspects of Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and
Twain's Huckleberry Finn. Each chapter is an exercise in close
reading, which is to say, in scrutinizing the writer's art as it
enhances the ideas its masterpiece projects. Through an examination
of human values and of the ways they are shaped and delineated by a
great imagination, the book aims to further the position of Virgil
as one of the most original of poets in our humanist canon, himself
emulating Homer but deeply influential on the literature of our
world, from Dante to Derek Walcott and Seamus Heaney.
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