Virgil's Schoolboys: The Poetics of Pedagogy in Renaissance England

by Andrew Wallace

Virgil's Schoolboys adds a new layer of complexity to Virgil's already complex pedagogical afterlife. Reading the ancient Roman poet as an adventurous theorist of instruction, Andrew Wallace examines the relationship between his serial meditations on teaching in the Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid, and the pedagogical theories and practices that dominated the spaces in which his poems came to be taught in the grammar schools of Renaissance England...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199591245
• ISBN13: 9780199591244
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"