Jenkyns, Richard
Virgil's Experience

Nature and History: Times, Names, and Places.

Blending literature with history, and in the case of Lucretius, philosophy, Jenkyns offers a vision and an interpretation of the culture of the 1st century BC as a whole. He argues that Lucretius and Virgil affected a revolution in Western sensibility; claiming that a book about poetry should be a book about life, it combines scholarship and precision with a sense of the importance of literature and its capacity to enhance our understanding of our past and of ourselves. XIII,712 Seiten, gebunden (Clarendon Press 1998) textsauberes Exemplar mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren, leicht berieben/clean text pages, minor traces of use, slightly rubbed