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- catalog abstract ""This book is an examination of the ideological reception of Virgil at specific moments in the last two millennia. Following Tennyson's evaluation of Virgil - "Thou majestic in thy sadness / at the doubtful doom of human kind"--Richard Thomas first scrutinizes the Virgil tradition for readings that refute contemporary dismissals of the putative post-Vietnam Angst of the so-called "Harvard School," then detects the suppression of such readings in the "Augustan" reception, effected through the lens of Augustus and the European successors of Augustus who constructed Rome's first emperor - and Virgil - for their own political purposes. He looks at Augustus in the poetry of Virgil, detects in the poets and grammarians of antiquity alternately a collaborative oppositional reading and an attempt to suppress such reading, studies creative translation (particularly Dryden's), which reasserts the "Augustan" Virgil, and examines naive translation which can be truer to the spirit of Virgil. Scrutiny of "textual cleansing," philology's rewriting or excision of troubling readings, leads to readings by both supporters and opponents of fascism and National Socialism to support or subvert the latter-day Augustus. The book ends with a diachronic examination of the ways successive ages have tried to make the Aeneid conform to their upbeat expectations of this poet."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12040607.
- catalog coverage "Rome In literature.".
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""This book is an examination of the ideological reception of Virgil at specific moments in the last two millennia. Following Tennyson's evaluation of Virgil - "Thou majestic in thy sadness / at the doubtful doom of human kind"--Richard Thomas first scrutinizes the Virgil tradition for readings that refute contemporary dismissals of the putative post-Vietnam Angst of the so-called "Harvard School," then detects the suppression of such readings in the "Augustan" reception, effected through the lens of Augustus and the European successors of Augustus who constructed Rome's first emperor - and Virgil - for their own political purposes.".
- catalog description "He looks at Augustus in the poetry of Virgil, detects in the poets and grammarians of antiquity alternately a collaborative oppositional reading and an attempt to suppress such reading, studies creative translation (particularly Dryden's), which reasserts the "Augustan" Virgil, and examines naive translation which can be truer to the spirit of Virgil. Scrutiny of "textual cleansing," philology's rewriting or excision of troubling readings, leads to readings by both supporters and opponents of fascism and National Socialism to support or subvert the latter-day Augustus. The book ends with a diachronic examination of the ways successive ages have tried to make the Aeneid conform to their upbeat expectations of this poet."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-312) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: the critical landscape -- 1. Virgil and Augustus -- 2. Virgil and the poets: Horace, Ovid and Lucan -- 3. Other voices in Servius: schooldust of the ages -- 4. Dryden's Virgil and the politics of translation -- 5. Dido and her translators -- 6. Philology and textual cleansing -- 7. Virgil in a cold climate: fascist reception -- 8. Beyond the borders of Eboli: anti-fascist reception -- 9. Critical and games.".
- catalog extent "xx, 324 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0521782880".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Rome In literature.".
- catalog subject "871/.01 21".
- catalog subject "Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D. In literature.".
- catalog subject "Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D. Influence.".
- catalog subject "Latin language Translating into English.".
- catalog subject "Latin poetry History and criticism Theory, etc.".
- catalog subject "PA6825 .T518 2001".
- catalog subject "Virgil Appreciation Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "Virgil Criticism and interpretation History.".
- catalog subject "Virgil Translations into English History and criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: the critical landscape -- 1. Virgil and Augustus -- 2. Virgil and the poets: Horace, Ovid and Lucan -- 3. Other voices in Servius: schooldust of the ages -- 4. Dryden's Virgil and the politics of translation -- 5. Dido and her translators -- 6. Philology and textual cleansing -- 7. Virgil in a cold climate: fascist reception -- 8. Beyond the borders of Eboli: anti-fascist reception -- 9. Critical and games.".
- catalog title "Virgil and the Augustan reception / Richard F. Thomas.".
- catalog type "text".