Death and Rebirth in Virgil's Arcadia
Author | : M. Owen Lee |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1989-01-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 0791400166 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780791400166 |
Rating | : 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Download or read book Death and Rebirth in Virgil's Arcadia written by M. Owen Lee and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 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.