The Criticism of Didactic Poetry : : Essays on Lucretius, Virgil, and Ovid / / Alexander Dalzell.
Shelley thought all didactic poetry an 'abhorrence,' and most of the Romantics agreed with this judgment. Critics in this century have been less dismissive of the genre, but seem puzzled by it. There has been a tendency to treat a didactic poem as though it were a kind of lyric, in which t...
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Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Robson Classical Lectures
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. The Criticism of Didactic Poetry
- 2. The De rerum natura of Lucretius
- 3. The Philosophical Language of Lucretius
- 4. The Georgics of Virgil
- 5. Ovid: The Ars amatoria
- Notes
- Bibliography of Works Cited