{"product_id":"9781487547950","title":"Vergil and Elegy","description":"Author: Alison Keith\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781487547950\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 16 May 2023\u003cbr\u003ePages: 458 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis collection explores Vergil\u0026amp;#x27;s engagement with the genre of elegy across various themes, linguistic traditions, and historical periods.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in 70 BCE, the Roman poet Vergil came of age during a period of literary experimentalism among Latin authors. These authors introduced new Greek verse forms and meters into the existing repertoire of Latin poetic genres and measures, foremost among them being \u003ci\u003eelegy\u003c\/i\u003e, a genre that the ancients thought originated in funeral lament, but which in classical Rome became first-person poetry about the poet-lover's amatory vicissitudes. Despite the influence of notable elegists on Vergil's early poetry, his critics have rarely paid attention to his engagement with the genre across his body of work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection is devoted to an exploration of Vergil's multifaceted relations with elegy. Contributors shed light on Vergil's interactions with the genre and its practitioners across classical, medieval, and early modern periods. The book investigates Vergil's hexameter poetry in relation to contemporary Latin elegy by Gallus, Tibullus, and Propertius, and the subsequent reception of Vergil's radical combination of epic with elegy by later Latin and Italian authors. Filling a striking gap in the scholarship, \u003ci\u003eVergil and Elegy\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the famous poet's wide-ranging engagement with the genre of elegy across his oeuvre.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47919593259166,"sku":"ING-9781487547950","price":189.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781487547950.jpg?v=1782813889","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781487547950","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}