Cultivating Peace : : The Virgilian Georgic in English, 1650-1750 / / Melissa Schoenberger.
During the decades following the English civil wars, British poets seeking to make sense of lingering political instabilities turned to Virgil’s Georgics. This ancient poem betrays deep ambivalences about war, political power, and empire, and such poets as Andrew Marvell, John Dryden, and Anne Finch...
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Place / Publishing House: | Lewisburg, PA : : Bucknell University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (187 p.) :; 5 B-W photos |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Notes on Translation
- Introduction: The Arts of Peace
- 1. Mutability: Cycles of War and Peace
- 2. Translation: Virgil and Dryden in 1697
- 3. Contingency: The Georgic Poetry of Anne Finch
- 4. Imitation: The Georgics and the Eighteenth Century
- Conclusion: “At Their Hours of Preparation”
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the author
- Transits