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Tsvetaeva's Orphic journeys in the worlds of the word
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ISBN: 0810113155 Year: 1996 Volume: *1 Publisher: Evanston, Ill. Northwestern University Press

Virgil as Orpheus : a study of the Georgics
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ISBN: 0791427846 9780791427842 0791427838 Year: 1996 Publisher: Albany (N.Y.) : State university of New York press,

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Though John Dryden once called the Georgics "the best Poem of the best Poet, " and Montaigne thought it the most highly finished work in all of poetry, Virgil's song of the earth has never won as many readers as has his Aeneid, and at present it is the subject of more debate among classicists than perhaps any other poem in Latin. Using a Jungian approach, this book draws on the new commentaries in English as well as on the work of the great German Virgilians of the past, and is written in the eloquent, accessible, and personal style for which its author has become known. It outlines clearly the literary and historical background of the poem, discusses the sound of Virgil's hexameters, and treats each of the four georgics in detail, with special emphasis on the concluding myth of Orpheus. The most baffling of all Latin poems is shown in these pages to be Virgil's gift to Augustus, the most powerful man in the world as the salvational leader of the renewed Roman state, telling him what he must know about nature and about human nature if he is to rule the world well.

Virgil as Orpheus : a study of the Georgics
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ISBN: 0585059217 9780585059211 0791427838 0791427846 9780791427835 9780791427842 1438410336 9781438410333 Year: 1996 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,

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Though John Dryden once called the Georgics "the best Poem of the best Poet," and Montaigne thought it the most highly finished work in all of poetry, Virgil's song of the earth has never won as many readers as has his Aeneid, and at present it is the subject of more debate among classicists than perhaps any other poem in Latin. Using a Jungian approach, this book draws on the new commentaries in English as well as on the work of the great German Virgilians of the past, and is written in the eloquent, accessible, and personal style for which its author has become known. It outlines clearly the literary and historical background of the poem, discusses the sound of Virgil's hexameters, and treats each of the four georgics in detail, with special emphasis on the concluding myth of Orpheus. The most baffling of all Latin poems is shown in these pages to be Virgil's gift to Augustus, the most powerful man in the world as the salvational leader of the renewed Roman state, telling him what he must know about nature and about human nature if he is to rule the world well.

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