Virgil av Alison (University of Toronto Canada) Keith

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The works of Virgil (70¿19 BCE) define the ¿golden age¿ of Latin poetry and have inspired a long tradition of interpretation and adaptation that starts in his own time and extends to important modern authors. His ascent from the lesser genre of pastoral (the <i>Bucolics</i>) through a more ambitious didactic mode (the <i>Georgics</i>) to the soaring heights of epic (the incomparable <i>Aeneid</i>) shaped the canonical writings of other authors, from his younger contemporary Ovid through the medieval writers Dante and Petrarch to the early modern poets Spenser and Milton and well beyond. Virgil, as Alison Keith shows, has never gone out of critical or popular fashion. This wide-ranging introduction appraises a figure of central importance in the history of Western music, art and literature. Offering close readings of the <i>Bucolics</i>, <i>Georgics</i> and <i>Aeneid</i>, Keith places Virgil and his poetry in historical context before tracing their impact at key moments in the culture o