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This volume brings together examples of English verse satire
written during the sixteenth and early seventeenth century,
interpreting satire widely to include reflective poems modelled on
Horace, 'aggressive' poems modelled on Juvenal, and poems in the
native or medieval tradition. There are substantial extracts from
the anonymous Cock Lorell's Boat, Skelton's Colin Clout and
Spenser's Mother Hubberd's Tale, but most poems are given complete.
Among other poets represented are Wyatt, Donne, Marston and Jonson
and a number of pieces have been included by writers whose work is
today not readily accessible, such as Gascoigne, Lodge, Rowlands
and Guilpin. The nature and development of verse satire as a
literary genre is discussed in the introduction.
This is a book about Virgil??'s Aeneid, especially the second half
of the poem, are explores in some detail Virgil??'s use of
Homer??'s Iliad. The author??'s main purpose is to try to
re-establish the value and importance of books VII-XII of the
Aeneid, which he argues, far from constituting a falling off from
the more familiar earlier books, Aeneid VII-XII presents a
continuous epic narrative of sustained power, planned and executed
on the largest scale and offering a structural unity which matches
that of its great model. His secondary purpose is to try to give
the modern reader an impression of what Homer??'s Iliad meant to
the implied reader of the Aeneid and to Virgil himself. Throughout,
Gransden places emphasis on the text as a piece of continuous
narrative, finding that the experience of reading VII-XII modifies
the reader??'s sense of books I-VI. This book will interest all
those who enjoy Virgil, whether they are studying Latin or reading
the poet in translation. A knowledge of Latin is not essential and
those concerned with the techniques of narrative in epic and other
fiction will also find the book of value.
Book VIII is one of the most attractive and important books of
Virgil's Aeneid. It includes the visit of Aaneas to the site of the
future Rome, the story of Hercules and Cacus, the episode between
Venus and Vulcan and the description of the great symbolic shield
of Aeneas. Mr Gransden's introduction relates this book to the
Aeneid as a whole considers the text in various aspects: the
topography, Virgil's sense of history, his typology and symbolism,
his literary style and his influence on subsequent vernacular
poetry. The commentary discusses points of special interest and
difficulty in interpretation, style and prosody and gives detailed
explanation of the many allusions in Book VIII to customs, legends,
traditions and historical events. This is primarily a textbook for
university students and sixth-formers, but it also contains
material which may be of interest to students of English and
comparative literature.
The Aeneid is a landmark of literary narrative and poetic sensibility. This guide gives a full account of the historical setting and significance of Virgil’s epic, and discusses the poet’s use of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, as well as the most celebrated episodes in the poem, including the tragedy of Dido and Aeneas’ visit to the underworld. The volume examines Virgil’s psychological and philosophical insights, and explains the poem’s status as the central classic of European culture. The final chapter considers the Aeneid’s influence on later writers including Dante and the Romantics. The guide to further reading has been updated and will prove to be an invaluable resource to students coming to The Aeneid for the first time.
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