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Hardcover. Zustand: As New. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. Still in the shrink-wrapping. List price Amazon - $70.00. "In the early modern period, the culture of Rome, with Virgil as its greatest figure, was the model for emulation. The age of Louis XIV compared itself to the Augustan age, and Dryden hailed Virgil as "my Divine Master." But in 18th-century Europe, a general shift occurred in favor of Greece, a trend that was most pronounced in Germany. Winckelmann, the spokesman for philhellenism, extolled Greek art and dismissed all Roman art as derivative and Virgil as second rate and incapable of understanding true beauty. Yet he nonetheless remained indebted to Virgil for his view of Greek art, although he failed to recognize it.The export of Winckelmann's new view of Virgil and more generally Roman culture - shared to varying extents by Lessing, Herder, Goethe, and the brothers Schlegel - to the rest of Europe in the 19th century, particularly to the English-speaking world via Coleridge and Matthew Arnold) soon made it the reigning dogma: indeed it formed the point of departure for Virgil scholarship in the 20th century. This, however, did not prevent German poets from using Virgil, although neither they nor later scholars called attention to it. Virgil became a repressed muse, and has a continued, unexamined presence in the epic and idyll of Klopstock, Wieland, Goethe, and Novalis. Geoffrey Atherton's comparative investigation of the relation of modernity to antiquity through Virgil and his twofold reception represents a new perspective on this issue" (Publisher).

Zustand: Gut. 312 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - A very good and clean copy. - At the beginning of the eighteenth century Virgil enjoyed a position of unparalled authority in the literary culture of Germany as well as Europe more generally. Virgil's preeminence in the highest of the recognized genres of poetic composition, the epic, was unquestioned, and in the popular and luxuriant pastoral, his language, his motifs, and his image of Arcadia (his own innovation) pervaded the artistic consciousness of the age. Yet by the century's close Virgil had been not merely dethroned but also degraded as the poet who had failed to compose anything that could creditably be called a poem. This fall from grace was not confined to Virgil alone but extended to the assessment of the entire Roman literary achievement: Virgil became the failed poet, and Latin literature the failed national literature. To explain this shift requires an examination of its relation to the wider concerns of the German Enlightenment and the contemporaneous rise of German philhellenism. The primary aim of this book is to explain this repudiation of Virgil and the Latins in Germany during the eighteenth century and the understanding of antiquity it bequeathed to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book's other objective is to show that, despite Virgil's official dethronement and dismemberment, German writers of the period in epic and pastoral literature continued to harken to the Virgilian muse, although they were increasingly disinclined to acknowledge it after the century's midpoint. ISBN 9781571133069 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 788 16,3 x 2,3 x 23,7 cm, Original cloth.