"Vergil has exerted a stronger grasp on the poetic imagination and critical scholarship than almost any other poet. This book - a collection of essays and conversations by such leading poets and classicists as Joseph Brodsky, Christine Perkell,...
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"Vergil has exerted a stronger grasp on the poetic imagination and critical scholarship than almost any other poet. This book - a collection of essays and conversations by such leading poets and classicists as Joseph Brodsky, Christine Perkell, Michael C.J. Putnam, and Mark Strand - explores the ways in which Vergil has influenced readers of today." "The book takes a broad look at questions of historicism: how we read a work written 2,000 years ago. There are not only close readings of the Aeneid, the Eclogues, and Georgics, but also essays dealing with such topics as Vergil's relation to the Roman past, the critical reception of the Aeneid through the centuries, and Vergil's influence from the Renaissance to the present."--Jacket Imaginary Romans: Vergil and the illusion of national identity / W.R. Johnson -- On grief and reason: two selections / Joseph Brodsky -- Pastoral value in Vergil: some instances / Christine Perkell -- Aristaeus, Orpheus, and the Georgics: once again / Gian Biagio Conte -- Some observations on Aeneid Book VI / Mark Strand -- Mortal father, divine mother: Aeneid VI and VIII / Helen H. Bacon -- Vergil's Aeneid: the final lines / Michael C.J. Putnam -- The end of the Aeneid / Rosanna Warren -- The Aeneid transformed: illustration as interpretation from the Renaissance to the present / Craig Kallendorf -- not-blank-verse: Surrey's Aeneid translations and the prehistory of a form / Stephen Merriam Foley -- Vergil reading Homer / Robert Fagles, in conversation with Sarah Spence -- Lacrimae rerum: the influence of Vergil / Virtual roundtable, with Karl Kirchwey [and others]
