Fathers and Sons in Virgil's Aeneid
Author: M. Owen Lee
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1979-01-01
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780873954020
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNarrative summary of Virgil's epic poem.
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Fathers and Sons in Virgil's Aeneid
Author: M. Owen Lee
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1982-06-30
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1438410301
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, M. Owen Lee provides a comprehensive narrative summary of Virgil's Aeneid and a personal account of his experience with the epic poem. Noting that Virgil is the writer most Latinists read early, live with, and often come to love late, Lee expresses a clear devotion to the poet's work and relates how it has touched him throughout his life. While most criticism of the Aeneid makes a distinction between what critics say and what an individual may respond to, Lee takes a unique approach by analyzing the epic story from his own point of view. He not only explores the extensive Virgilian tradition, but also looks at the work of other poets, as well as philosophers, artists, composers, and filmmakers in order to better understand the Aeneid. Lee concludes that Virgil's poem, with its unavailing fathers and dutiful sons, its ineffably sad view of a failed humanity and a flawed universe, still touches hearts and, in ways Virgil could not have foreseen, still affects human lives.
Aeneid
Author: Virgil
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-03-12
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 0486113973
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMonumental epic poem tells the heroic story of Aeneas, a Trojan who escaped the burning ruins of Troy to found Lavinium, the parent city of Rome, in the west.
Death and Rebirth in Virgil's Arcadia
Author: M. Owen Lee
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1989-07-15
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9780791400173
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDeath and Rebirth in Virgils Arcadia is an introduction to the Eclogues, based on sound scholarship but also personally felt and addressed to a popular audience. It outlines clearly the literary and historical background of Virgils early poems, discusses each eclogue in some detail, and offers a new and challenging interpretation of the collection as a whole. The ten eclogues are shown to be a young poets attempt at self-understanding. Their symmetrical arrangement is a journey inward toward the central experience of death, and a journey back toward rebirth and the writing of larger and greater works.
Why Vergil?
Author: Stephanie Quinn
Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 478
ISBN-13: 0865164185
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn anthology of 43 classic essays and poems on the Roman poet. Quinn's position is that his work continues to be compelling and flexible enough to support a wide range of interpretations and perspectives. In addition to a bibliography, she provides a lengthy introduction and conclusion that tackle the question of the book's title, Why Vergil? Further, she juxtaposes the first few lines of the Aeneid in its original Latin with five translations, and includes a synopsis of it and a list of dates for quick reference. She has not indexed the volume.
Aeneid 2
Author: Randall Toth Ganiban
Publisher: Focus Vergil Aeneid Commentaries
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is part of a series of individual volumes covering Books 1-6 of Vergil's Aeneid. Each book will include an introduction, notes, bibliography, commentary and glossary, and be edited by an expert in the field. These individual volumes will form a combined Vol 1-6 book as well.
Virgil as Orpheus
Author: M. Owen Lee
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1996-01-04
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780791427842
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a popular introduction to Virgil's Georgics for the general reader.
Shakespeare's Epic of Fathers and Sons
Author: William Stuart Buck
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 532
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDreams of the Burning Child
Author: David Lee Miller
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-07-05
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1501728849
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Dreams of the Burning Child, David Lee Miller explores the uncanny persistence of filial sacrifice as a motif in English literature and its classical and biblical antecedents. He combines strikingly original reinterpretations of the Aeneid, Hamlet, The Winter's Tale, and Dombey and Son with perceptive accounts of dreams found in memoirs, poems, and psychoanalytic texts. Miller looks closely at the grisly fantasy of the sacrifice of sons as it is depicted in classical epic, early modern drama, the nineteenth-century novel, the postcolonial novel, the lyric, the funeral elegy, sacred scriptures, and psychoanalytic theory. He also draws examples from painting, sculpture, photography, and architecture into a witty and engaging discussion that ranges from the binding of Isaac to Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, and from questions of literary history to the dilemmas of patriarchal masculinity.
Aeneid Book VI
Author: Seamus Heaney
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2016-05-03
Total Pages: 111
ISBN-13: 0374715351
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA masterpiece from one of the greatest poets of the century In a momentous publication, Seamus Heaney's translation of Book VI of the Aeneid, Virgil's epic poem composed sometime between 29 and 19 BC, follows the hero, Aeneas, on his descent into the underworld. In Stepping Stones, a book of interviews conducted by Dennis O'Driscoll, Heaney acknowledged the significance of the poem to his writing, noting that "there's one Virgilian journey that has indeed been a constant presence, and that is Aeneas's venture into the underworld. The motifs in Book VI have been in my head for years--the golden bough, Charon's barge, the quest to meet the shade of the father." In this new translation, Heaney employs the same deft handling of the original combined with the immediacy of language and sophisticated poetic voice as was on show in his translation of Beowulf, a reimagining which, in the words of James Wood, "created something imperishable and great that is stainless--stainless, because its force as poetry makes it untouchable by the claw of literalism: it lives singly, as an English language poem."
