The Roman poets of the Augustan age : Virgil / by W.Y. Sellar
1883, Second Edition. Oxford : Clarendon Press. Very good copy in the original publisher's red cloth boards, gilt-blocked with decorative raised bands, gilt-tooling to spine compartments, and marbled edges. Some rubbing and wear to the extremities, with some loss to the cloth on front cover. The binding remains remarkably firm and secure, and the text-block is clean. A well-preserved copy overall. Item #450404
Series; Clarendon Press series. Physical description; xx, 423 pages ; 20 cm. Contents; 1. General introduction -- 2. Virgil's place in Roman literature -- 3. Life and personal characteristics of Virgil -- 4. The Eclogues -- 5. Motives, form, substance, and sources of the Georgics -- 6. Structure and composition of the poem in relation to the poem of Lucretius -- 7. The Georgics: a poem representative of Italy -- 8. The Roman epic before the time of Virgil -- 9. Form and subject of the Aeneid -- 10. The Aeneid as the epic of the Roman Empire -- 11. The Aeneid as an epic poem of human life. Subjects; Virgil Criticism and interpretation. Latin poetry History and criticism.
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