The Criticism of Didactic Poetry: Essays on Lucretius, Virgil, and Ovid

by Alexander Dalzell

Shelley thought all didactic poetry an 'abhorrence, ' and most of the Romantics agreed with this judgment. Critics in this century have been less dismissive of the genre, but seem puzzled by it. There has been a tendency to treat a didactic poem as though it were a kind of lyric, in which the focus of interest lies in the emotions and feelings of the writer. But didactic poetry has a purpose, history, and character of its own. This original and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442612991
• ISBN13: 9781442612990
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher