Cultivating peace : the Virgilian Georgic in English, 1650-1750
Melissa Schoenberger
Bok · Engelsk · 2019 · Criticism, interpretation, etc.
| Omfang | xiii, 168 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | Introduction: the arts of peace -- Mutability: cycles of war and peace -- On mutability: Virgil's first lesson -- Before Marvell: Georgic mutability in England -- The trap of war and the map of paradise: Marvell's vision of peace -- Translation: Virgil and Dryden in 1697 -- The English Virgil -- Dryden's Georgics: "nor when the war is over, is it peace" -- From peace to war: the Aeneis -- Contingency: the Georgic poetry of Anne Finch -- A Virgilian retreat -- Finch and the force of fable -- Imitation: the Georgics before and after 1713 -- John Philips and the inmate orchat -- From didactic to descriptive -- After Thomson: Christopher Smart, the hop-garden, and the end of Georgic peace -- Conclusion: "at their hours of preparation."
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| ISBN | 1684480477. - 1684480485. - 9781684480470. - 9781684480487
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