TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hardie,Philip R.
AU  - Moore,Helen
TI  - Classical literary careers and their reception
SN  - 9780521762977 (hbk.)
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Cambridge, UK.
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Latin literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Authorship
KW  - History
KW  - Authors and readers
KW  - Authors and patrons
KW  - Appreciation
KW  - Europe
KW  - European literature
KW  - Classical influences
KW  - Comparative literature
KW  - Classical and modern
KW  - Modern and classical
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 300-326) and index
N2  - 'This is a wide-ranging collection of essays on ancient Roman literary careers and their reception in later European literature, with contributions by leading experts. Starting from the three major Roman models for constructing a literary career - Virgil (the rota Vergiliana), Horace and Ovid - the volume then looks at alternative and counter-models in antiquity: Propertius, Juvenal, Cicero and Pliny. A range of post-antique responses to the ancient patterns is examined, from Dante to Wordsworth, and including Petrarch, Shakespeare, Milton, Marvell, Dryden and Goethe. These chapters pose the question of the continuing relevance of ancient career models as ideas of authorship change over the centuries, leading to varying engagements and disengagements with classical literary careers. The volume also considers other ways of concluding or extending a literary career, such as bookburning and figurative metempsychosis'--Provided by publisher
ER  -