Death Rebirth Virgils AR

By Mark Owen Lee

Book Overview

Death and Rebirth in Virgil's 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 Virgil's 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 poet's 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791400174
• ISBN13: 9780791400173
• Release Date: August 1989
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher