Bucolic Ecology

Virgil's Eclogues and the Environmental Literary Tradition

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Ancient & Classical, Poetry History & Criticism
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Author: Timothy Saunders ISBN: 9781472521101
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Publication: November 1, 2013
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic Language: English
Author: Timothy Saunders
ISBN: 9781472521101
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication: November 1, 2013
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English

Beginning in outer space and ending up among the atoms, "Bucolic Ecology" illustrates how these poems repeatedly turn to the natural world in order to define themselves and their place in the literary tradition. It argues that the 'Eclogues' find there both a sequence of analogies for their own poetic processes and a map upon which can be located other landmarks in Greco-Roman literature. Unlike previous studies of this kind, "Bucolic Ecology" does not attribute to Virgil a predominantly Romantic conception of nature and its relationship to poetry, but by adopting such differing approaches to the physical world as astronomy, geography, topography, landscape and ecology, it offers an account of the Eclogues that emphasises their range and complexity and reaffirms their innovation and audacity.

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Beginning in outer space and ending up among the atoms, "Bucolic Ecology" illustrates how these poems repeatedly turn to the natural world in order to define themselves and their place in the literary tradition. It argues that the 'Eclogues' find there both a sequence of analogies for their own poetic processes and a map upon which can be located other landmarks in Greco-Roman literature. Unlike previous studies of this kind, "Bucolic Ecology" does not attribute to Virgil a predominantly Romantic conception of nature and its relationship to poetry, but by adopting such differing approaches to the physical world as astronomy, geography, topography, landscape and ecology, it offers an account of the Eclogues that emphasises their range and complexity and reaffirms their innovation and audacity.

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