Preposterous Virgil: Reading through Stoppard, Auden, Wordsworth, Heaney
Author:   Professor Juan Christian Pellicer
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781848856516


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   30 June 2022
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Author:   Professor Juan Christian Pellicer
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   I.B. Tauris
ISBN:  

9781848856516


ISBN 10:   1848856512
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   30 June 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction: Reception and the Figure of Allusion Chapter 1: Virgil in Stoppard's Arcadia Chapter 2: Virgil's Shield of Aeneas through Auden's 'The Shield of Achilles' Chapter 3: Equivocal blessings: Georgics 2 through Wordsworth's 'Tintern Abbey' Chapter 4: Mantua via Mossbawn: Virgil via Heaney Conclusion: Imagination and the common reader: Virgil through V. Sackville-West's two English georgics, The Land (1926) and The Garden (1946) Notes Bibliography Index

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Reading backwards through time from modern to ancient, Juan Christian Pellicer gives us extraordinarily sensitive readings of Wordsworth and Auden, Stoppard and Heaney, which in turn sensitize us to subtleties in Virgil's poetry. Preposterous Virgil is not only a contribution to our understanding of classical and English literature, but an elegant demonstration of their interdependence and mutual illumination. -- John Talbot, Associate Professor of English, Brigham Young University, USA


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Juan Christian Pellicer is Professor of English at the University of Oslo, Norway. He has published numerous articles and chapters on classical reception, the literary traditions of pastoral and georgic, and eighteenth-century English poetry.

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