Virgil
A Study in Civilized Poetry

Brooks Otis (Author)

9780806127828

Paperback / softback, published 15 October 1995

462 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.8 cm, 0.539 kg

In this classic study, Brooks Otis presents Virgil as a radically different poet from any of his Greek or Roman predecessors. Virgil molded the ancient epic tradition to his own Roman contemporary aims and succeeded in making mythical and legendary figures meaningful to a sophisticated, unmythical age. Otis begins and ends his study with the Aeneid and includes chapters on the Bucolics and the Georgics. A new foreword by Ward W. Briggs, Jr., places Otis's groundbreaking achievement in the context of past and present Virgilian scholarship.