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Henry Nettleship, John Conington, Henry Virgil
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R1,082
Discovery Miles 10 820
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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John Conington's three-volume edition of The Works of Virgil, begun
in 1852, has long been unavailable except in rare second-hand sets.
The whole work is now being reissued in six affordable paperbacks,
with new introductions setting the commentary in its context. Well
into the twentieth century Conington's Virgil remained the sine qua
non for school and undergraduate students and their teachers;
Conington's commentary is remarkably close and uncompromising in
its engagement with the detail of Virgil's Latin, as well as its
literary sensitivity; it still has much to offer the modern reader.
This volume includes Virgil's text and Conington's commentary on
Books X-XII, along with Conington's index to Books VII-XII. It also
includes Philip Hardie's general assessment of Conington and Anne
Rogerson's introduction to Conington's Aeneid.
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Opera (Paperback)
Henry Nettleship, John Conington, Henry Virgil
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R857
Discovery Miles 8 570
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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First published between 1858 and 1871, John Conington's lucid
exposition of the complete works of Virgil continues to set the
standard for commentary on the Virgilian corpus. After decades out
of print, this three-volume edition is once again available to
readers, allowing Conington's subtle investigations of language,
context, and intellectual background to find a fresh audience.
Volume 1 features the Eclogues and Georgics. Introductory essays
and detailed, informative notes situate the individual works within
the larger field of Latin pastoral and didactic poetry. Still a
major scholarly contribution over a century and a half after its
initial publication, Conington's Works of Virgil is fine testament
to one of Victorian England's most talented readers of classical
Latin, a philologist whose gifts, as his colleague Henry Nettleship
noted, 'were of a single and representative order ... unlikely to
be replaced'.
First published between 1858 and 1871, John Conington's lucid
exposition of the complete works of Virgil continues to set the
standard for commentary on the Virgilian corpus. After decades out
of print, this three-volume edition is once again available to
readers, allowing Conington's subtle investigations of language,
context, and intellectual background to find a fresh audience.
Volume 2 (1863) features the first six books of the Aeneid.
Introductory essays and detailed, informative notes situate the
work within the larger field of Greek and Latin epic poetry. Still
a major scholarly contribution over a century and a half after its
initial publication, Conington's Works of Virgil is fine testament
to one of Victorian England's most talented readers of classical
Latin, a philologist whose gifts, as his colleague Henry Nettleship
noted, 'were of a single and representative order ... unlikely to
be replaced'.
First published between 1858 and 1871, John Conington's lucid
exposition of the complete works of Virgil continues to set the
standard for commentary on the Virgilian corpus. After decades out
of print, this three-volume edition is once again available to
readers, allowing Conington's subtle investigations of language,
context, and intellectual background to find a fresh audience. This
final volume (1871), published posthumously and completed with the
assistance of Henry Nettleship, features Books VII-XII of the
Aeneid. Detailed, informative notes situate the individual work
within the larger field of Greek and Latin epic poetry. Still a
major scholarly contribution over a century and a half after its
initial publication, Conington's Works of Virgil is fine testament
to one of Victorian England's most talented readers of classical
Latin, a philologist whose gifts, Nettleship notes, 'were of a
single and representative order ... unlikely to be replaced'.
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