Virgil's schoolboys
Subtitle: the poetics of pedagogy in Renaissance England
By: by Andrew Wallace
Series: Classical presences
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780199591244
Subjects: Study and teaching; Education; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-257) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Virgil's schooldays ; Master, scholar, schoolbook; title: The poet as schoolbook. 'I must read Virgil' ; 'Amo magistrum, I love the maister' ; The place of commentary and the works of Amor; title: Pastoral and the painful schoolmaster. Echo, eclogue, dialogue ; 'The schoolemaister of Bacchus' ; 'Now thou art gone, now thou art gone'; title: Placement and pedagogy in the Georgics. 'The rurall part of Virgil' ; Virgil's schoolroom ; 'Some boks have resistit, standeth stil' ; Print and pedagogy; title: Forgetting epic. After Troy ; Virgil's wild goose ; Epic struggles ; 'A palmer with a rodde'; title: Conclusion : 'Virgilius poëtarum doctissimus'.