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.