Research Catalog

Title

Classical literary careers and their reception / edited by Philip Hardie and Helen Moore.

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Hardie, Philip R.
• Moore, Helen (Helen Dale)

Description

xii, 330 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"This is a wide-ranging collection of essays on ancient Roman literary careers and their reception in later European literature, with contributions by leading experts. Starting from the three major Roman models for constructing a literary career - Virgil (the rota Vergiliana), Horace and Ovid - the volume then looks at alternative and counter-models in antiquity: Propertius, Juvenal, Cicero and Pliny. A range of post-antique responses to the ancient patterns is examined, from Dante to Wordsworth, and including Petrarch, Shakespeare, Milton, Marvell, Dryden and Goethe. These chapters pose the question of the continuing relevance of ancient career models as ideas of authorship change over the centuries, leading to varying engagements and disengagements with classical literary careers. The volume also considers other ways of concluding or extending a literary career, such as bookburning and figurative metempsychosis"--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• Latin literature > History and criticism
• Authorship > History
• Authors and readers > History
• Authors and patrons > History
• Latin literature > Appreciation > Europe
• European literature > History and criticism
• European literature > Classical influences
• Comparative literature > Classical and modern
• Comparative literature > Modern and classical

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Introduction. Literary careers: classical models and their receptions Philip Hardie and Helen Moore; 1. Some Virgilian unities Michael C. J. Putnam; 2. There and back again: Horace's poetic career Stephen Harrison; 3. The Ovidian career model: Ovid, Gallus, Apuleius, Boccaccio Alessandro Barchiesi and Philip Hardie; 4. An elegist's career: from Cynthia to Cornelia S. J. Heyworth; 5. Persona and satiric career in Juvenal Catherine Keane; 6. The indistinct literary careers of Cicero and Pliny the Younger Roy Gibson and Catherine Steel; 7. Re-inventing Virgil's wheel: the poet and his work from Dante to Petrarch Andrew Laird; 8. Did Shakespeare have a literary career? Patrick Cheney; 9. New spins on old rotas: Virgil, Ovid, Milton Maggie Kilgour; 10. Bookburning and the poetic deathbed: the legacy of Virgil Nita Krevans; 11. Literary afterlives: metempsychosis from Ennius to Jorge Luis Borges Stuart Gillespie; 12. 'Mirrored doubles': Andrew Marvell, the remaking of poetry and the poet's career Nigel Smith; 13. Dryden and the complete career Raphael Lyne; 14. Goethe's elegiac sabbatical Joseph Farrell; 15. Wordsworth's career prospects: 'peculiar language' and public epigraphs Nicola Trott; 16. Epilogue. Inventing a life: a personal view of literary careers Lawrence Lipking.

Call Number

JFE 11-1157

ISBN

• 9780521762977 (hardback)
• 0521762979 (hardback)

LCCN

2010030168

OCLC

YBP 2010030168

Title

Classical literary careers and their reception / edited by Philip Hardie and Helen Moore.

Imprint

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Hardie, Philip R.

Moore, Helen (Helen Dale)

Research Call Number

JFE 11-1157