This study in reception develops close readings of English literature as means of interrogating Virgil’s texts. Through four case studies, bookended by wide-ranging introductory and concluding chapters, this book shows how interpreting the Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid through modern responses can serve to focus on aspects of Virgil that would otherwise be differently perceived or else escape notice altogether. Juan Christian Pellicer probes our perceptions of the three Virgilian genres (pastoral, georgic, and epic) and analyzes the ways in which modern reconfigurations of these genres can...

This study in reception develops close readings of English literature as means of interrogating Virgil’s texts. Through four case studies, bookended by wide-ranging introductory and concluding chapters, this book shows how interpreting the Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid through modern responses can serve to focus on aspects of Virgil that would otherwise be differently perceived or else escape notice altogether. Juan Christian Pellicer probes our perceptions of the three Virgilian genres (pastoral, georgic, and epic) and analyzes the ways in which modern reconfigurations of these genres can...

The best of Greek lyric poetry pushes at the very limits of what is possible with language and meaning. As its rhythms, cadences and metaphors touch on the ineffable, it attempts to draw its audience ever closer to divinity. Of all the ancient Greek writers, it is Pindar who arguably best exhibits this preoccupation with the sublime. Yet as Robert Fowler suggests, in his much-anticipated new book, there is a pressing need for a reappraisal of Pindar as a poet. An overriding emphasis on orality - the performance of hymns of praise at various ancient Olympic and Panhellenic games - has...