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Record Nr.

UNISA996213128503316

Autore

Wallace Andrew

Titolo

Virgil's Schoolboys: The Poetics of Pedagogy in Renaissance England

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2011

ISBN

0-19-159556-X

0-19-959124-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Classical presences Virgil's schoolboys

Disciplina

873.01

Soggetti

Education - History - 16th century - England

Education - History - 17th century - England

Education

Languages & Literatures

Social Sciences

Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures

History of Education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction. Virgil's schooldays ; Master, scholar, schoolbook -- The poet as schoolbook. 'I must read Virgil' ; 'Amo magistrum, I love the maister' ; The place of commentary and the works of Amor -- Pastoral and the painful schoolmaster. Echo, eclogue, dialogue ; 'The schoolemaister of Bacchus' ; 'Now thou art gone, now thou art gone' -- Placement and pedagogy in the Georgics. 'The rurall part of Virgil' ; Virgil's schoolroom ; 'Some boks have resistit, standeth stil' ; Print and pedagogy -- Forgetting epic. After Troy ; Virgil's wild goose ; Epic struggles ; 'A palmer with a rodde' -- Conclusion : 'Virgilius poëtarum doctissimus'.

Sommario/riassunto

Examining the ways in which Virgil's poems were received and employed in the schoolrooms of 16th- and 17th-century England Andrew Wallace argues that the Roman poet is an original theorist of the nature and mechanics of instruction.