The Georgics of Virgil: A Critical Survey

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The Georgics of Virgil: A Critical SurveyThis highly acclaimed book was, when it was first published in 1969, the first complete book in English devoted to the Georgics of Virgil, of which Mr Wilkinson provides a comprehensive survey. With careful scholarship and shrewd verbal and stylistic analysis combined with sober common sense, he deals with Virgil's early life, the conception of the poem and its composition and structure. He also examines the poem's intellectual ancestry, studies its

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This work dominated the intellectual world of the Middle Ages

Over the course of this selection he covers a great variety of topics including the Stoics' perennial conflict with Fortune

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The content therefore makes this an ideal book for students to tackle as they make their first approach to Caesar's prose

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The selected poems depict the bitter-sweet love affairs of the poet-lovers and their mistresses

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