Virgil

by Philip Hardie

In this volume Philip Hardie provides an introduction to Virgil's three major works, a survey of changing critical approaches to the poems during the twentieth century, and a bibliographical guide for further study. A final section on style, language and metre offers a case-study in a close reading of a section of the Aeneid. The book communicates a sense of why reading Virgil matters and how the study of this author is always open to new ideas and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199223424
• ISBN13: 9780199223428
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.4" x 9.2"