Latin Epic and Didactic Poetry: Genre, Tradition and Individuality (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780954384562)

How is it possible for a poet to find his own individual voice, when he is writing in a tradition so venerable and so constrained by convention as Roman epic? How do poets working in related genres - particularly didactic - conceptualize their relationship to the main epic tradition? The eleven essays in this volume, by leading scholars in the field of Roman poetry and its post-Classical receptions, consider some of the strategies which writers from Lucretius onwards have employed in negotiating their relationship with their literary forebears, and staking out a place for their own work within a tradition stretching back to Hesiod and Homer.

Author: Monica Gale
ISBN-10: 0954384563
ISBN-13: 9780954384562
Publisher: Classical Press of Wales
Language: English
Published: 12/31/2004
Pages: 286
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.43lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.50w x 0.74d