Virgil
Subtitle: a collection of critical essays
By: edited by Steele Commager.
Series: A Spectrum book: Twentieth century views
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Published: 1966
Place of publication: Englewood Cliffs, N.J
Language: eng
Format: h
Number of pages: 186
Subjects: Virgil -- Criticism and interpretation; Pastoral poetry, Latin -- History and criticism; Didactic poetry, Latin -- History and criticism; Aeneas (Legendary character) in literature; Epic poetry, Latin -- History and criticism; Agriculture in literature; Rome -- In literature
Description: Scholarly commentaries on Virgil's theme of eternal death and renewal in nature and the world of men.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 185-186.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Steele Commager -- Arcadia: the discovery of a spiritual landscape / Bruno Snell -- The Georgics / Jacques Perret -- On translating the Aeneid: Yif that I can / R. W. B. Lewis -- Some characteristics of literary epic / C. M. Bowra -- Virgil and the subject of secondary epic / C. S. Lewis -- Odysseus and Aeneas / Theodore Haecker -- An interpretation of the Aeneid / Wendell Clausen -- The Odyssean Aeneid and the Iliadic Aeneid / Brooks Otis -- The two voices of Virgil’s Aeneid / Adam Parry -- The serpent and the flame: the imagery of the second book of the Aeneid / Bernard Knox -- Discolor aura: reflections on the golden bough / R. A. Brooks -- Basic themes / Viktor Pöschl -- Chronology of important dates.