Ronald Knox’s Lectures on Virgil’s Aeneid

With Introduction and Critical Essays

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

This book makes available Ronald Knox’s hitherto unpublished lectures on Virgil’s Aeneid delivered at Trinity College, Oxford, as part of a lecture course on Virgil in 1912. Written with Knox’s customary incisiveness and with frequent allusions to contemporary life, the lectures are devoted to the appreciation of the Aeneid and focus on what he called the ‘essential and dominant characteristics’ that make up its greatness. They deal with Virgil’s political and religious outlook, ideas of the afterlife, sense of romance and pathos, narrative style, sources, versification and appreciation of scenery. His interpretation of the relationship between Dido and Aeneas renders redundant the question, much debated to this day, of whether Aeneas loved Dido, and also portrays Aeneas more sympathetically than is currently fashionable.The additional introductory and critical essays by the contributors place the lectures in their historical and scholarly context, bring out their enduring relevance and illustrate how Ronald Knox’s distinctive approach might be still developed to advantage. As Robert Speaight noted in his presidential address to the Virgil Society in 1958, ‘many of us who love our Virgil will now understand him better because Ronald Knox loved and understood him so well’.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-02-20
Mått:154 x 232 x 16 mm
Vikt:420 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350354272

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Poesi inom Skönlitteratur
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Mer om författaren

Francesca Bugliani Knox is Honorary Senior Research Associate at University College London, UK. She is the editor of Ronald Knox: A Man for all Seasons (2016).

Recensioner i media

Readers will find in this book an insightful and witty commentary, suitable both for the serious student of the poem and for the layman reading it in translation. If it encourages anyone to read Virgil with fresh eyes or for the first time, it will have served its purpose.

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsForeword (Charles Martindale, University of Bristol, UK)Introduction: The Context of Ronald Knox’s Lectures on Virgil(Francesca Bugliani Knox, University College London, UK)Note on the Lecture List (Literae Humaniores) in The Oxford University Gazette (18 January 1912)Editing CriteriaPart I: Ronald Knox’s Lectures on Virgil1. Virgil’s Political Outlook2. Virgil’s Religious Outlook3. Virgil’s Romance and Pathos4. Virgil’s Art and Treatment of His Story5. Virgil’s Appreciation of Scenery6. Virgil’s Use of His Sources7. Note on the Composition of Book 38. Characteristics of Virgil’s Style and VersificationPart II: Critical Essays‘Ronald Knox’s Lectures on Virgil: “A Wealth of Delicate Tenderness”’(Matthew McGowan, Fordham University, USA)‘Ronald Knox’s Lectures on Virgil: their Relevance for Scholarly Interpretation of the Aeneid’ (Francesco Montarese, MPW College London, UK) ‘The Setting of the Lecture given by Monsignor Ronald Knox to the Virgil Society on 31 March 1946’(John Mair, UK)Appendix: ‘J. E. Lowe, Ronald Knox and the Virgil Society lecture entitled “The Problem of Dido and Aeneas”’(Francesca Bugliani Knox, University College London, UK)Notes BibliographyIndex