Death and Rebirth in Virgil's Arcadia
Author | : M. Owen Lee |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1989-07-15 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781438410296 |
ISBN-13 | : 1438410298 |
Rating | : 4/5 (298 Downloads) |
Download or read book Death and Rebirth in Virgil's Arcadia written by M. Owen Lee and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1989-07-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death and Rebirth in Virgil's Arcadia is an introduction to the Eclogues, based on sound scholarship but also personally felt and addressed to a popular audience. It outlines clearly the literary and historical background of Virgil's early poems, discusses each eclogue in some detail, and offers a new and challenging interpretation of the collection as a whole. The ten eclogues are shown to be a young poet's attempt at self-understanding. Their symmetrical arrangement is a journey inward toward the central experience of death, and a journey back toward rebirth and the writing of larger and greater works.