The Criticism of Didactic Poetry
The Criticism of Didactic Poetry

Author: Alexander Dalzell

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 1996-01-01

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0802008224

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Dalzell presents three of the major didactic poems in the classical canon: the De rerum natura of Lucretius, the Georgics of Virgil, and the Ars amatoria of Ovid, considering what tools are available for their understanding.

Lyric Poetry
Lyric Poetry

Author: Pietro Bembo

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780674017122

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Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), scholar and critic, was one of the most admired Latinists of his day. The poems in this volume come from all periods of his life and reflect both his erudition and his wide-ranging friendships. This volume also includes the prose dialogue Etna, an account of Bembo's ascent of Mt. Etna in Sicily during his student days.

Poetic Ethics in Proverbs
Poetic Ethics in Proverbs

Author: Anne W. Stewart

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1107119421

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This study explores the sophisticated understanding of the formation of the moral self that emerges in the poetry of Proverbs, which many have wrongly dismissed as simplistic. Anne W. Stewart analyzes images and metaphors to illuminate the Book's views on the role of emotions and desires in shaping moral imaginations.

William Blake's Jerusalem
William Blake's Jerusalem

Author: Minna Doskow

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780838630907

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Jerusalem represents the culmination of Blake's artistic endeavor in poetry and picture. The author approaches Blake's masterpiece from within rather that without, in an attempt to find a clue to the poem's structure in the poetry itself.